Imagine being in late 1980's, waiting for the prime time news with your family, sitting around the TV excited to hear the breaking news from Shami Narang.

But nowadays, there is no waiting. Open the TV and boom, variety of channels broadcasting same stories under different headlines. As the media is recognized as the fourth pillar of the democracy,  they are lowering the levels of these pillars as due to the 24 hour format news channels are now more concerned with the TRP's rather than the basic informative character of the journalism. As we saw, during the Sushant Singh Rajput  case all the channels broke the privacy of a family when they entered his family’s home to interview his father.  Not only that, almost all the channels ran his case 24/7 as breaking news as to get him justice but eventually the case took a big turn and is still being continued as a drug case.

With the advent of  cable television came the inception of 24/7 hour format which provided the news all day long, as  we could get minute by minute updates of any on going event at any corner of the world. Likewise, during the 2020 Presidential election of USA, Indian news channels broadcasted all the details and updates of the every minute happening.

 Due to the then 24 hour format and now the technological advancement and introduction of Internet, newspapers no longer are available to report any breaking news as every news is ready to be seen due to the these two easily available platforms. Even many newspapers agencies now have online portal to stay in the business.

As the  format was introduced , the necessity of running channels were provoked too. Due to which the channels introduced new programmes  like Debates , Panel Discussions, Talk Shows.

These talk shows or debates helps gains nothing rather all the panelists do is yelling and playing the blame game between the opposite party representatives.

 NDTV editor-in chief, Rajat Sharma introduced the infamous  "Aap ki Aadalat" which initially  produced great TRP and support of the people as they started getting to know about their on screen "heros".

Many times news channels occupies their slots through hours long entertainment news like  in laws related stories or slots with shows such as SBS  in which they tell whether Naira saved Kartik from the accident or going on and on about celebrities pregnancy. They broadcast stories which doesn't affect the viewers life in any way, like even if Taimur is enjoying his ride on horse what do we gotta do with it?

Worthy news doesn't change within minutes so news channels now prefer to broadcast unworthy ones with them as well. They present same stories under different sensational headlines to grab the attention of their viewers, there was headlines like "Sushant why did you hit a six so soon?" Or "Sara ka sara bhanda foota" such news are not only cringy but also are to quoted under yellow journalism.

But, with the help of 24 hour format many socially ignored issues are now being in the spot light are and discussed actively which were earlier left behind seeing the greater good. But now such stories are reaching out to the people, for instance, the stories of love jihad were earlier never discussed but now due to the online protest and recognition of the root of it,  states like Uttar Pradesh are establishing new rules to eradicate such cruelty.

Now, due to the race of 24 hour news, many news channels run along the TRP's and showcase more entertainment news than the needful ones. As during the start of the 2020, many countries like Africa were plagued with the wild fire which only got the 2 min story lines in the channels whereas the movies reviews were taken 30 minutes long hour discussions.

Many major news channels are also fighting over the biased nature of other channels but who is not biased? The biased nature of several channels are clearly visible but are only questioned when attacking a particular ideology.

Many channels in the race of reporting the news first, report it without the proper facts and sometimes create big mistakes either by mentioning wrong facts or wrong details like during the declaration of Osama bin laden's death,  a news channels reported,  that,  Obama bin laden is dead.  Even with the teams dedicated as fact checkers, we still need  our phones  to  recheck the news due to the lack of credibility from the news broadcasters way.  Due to advancement of such formats journalists are pressurised to find newsworthy stories every day to represent on channels but does news really changes every day, every minute?

Moreover, such rapidity of news channels sometimes also forces political parties to come up with a instant solution to the problem but rarely do the follow up whether the party is actually doing the ground work or reinforcement of such rules? The news channels move onto the next stories without any follow up of the story. Like, during the Hathras case, many political parties were in the race of reaching the victim's house first to ensure their names in the headlines and promised big thing and to the people but after months nobody has done anything in reality to the victim's family.

Human beings are rarely affected by the day to day news as nobody stays glued to their seats and watch 24/7 news to stay that updates as human tendencies are that they only concerned when something either hs happened in their immediate neighborhoods or is directly or indirectly connected to them. Else wise, many knows that there is that same story ruling many channels under different sensationalized headlines.

The 24 hour format was introduced for the betterment of the worldly updates but now is seen as a poison which is under different political influences and serve agenda based stories to their viewers to slowly turn them into a specific ideology in the name of news.

The news 24 hour format is more concerned with the  sensationalism, entertainment and opinion rather than the integrity, verification and actuality of the news.

- DEEPIKA KAUSHIK , JOURNALISM(D.U.) 

 Explode women-tech Myths :

Am big-eyed when it comes to Tech, willing to traverse more here! Wait, you are a girl! How can you be so curious about Tech?  We live in an era where the gender
differences are quite at a diminishing stage in several fields, but when it comes to“women in tech” there are several myths questioning us fairly to settle that yeah, women are not tech-savvy!
 
Women just don’t, like it - nothing we can do. god!!! we are on and on hearing these myths rather than focusing on why it is shaping in this mold. Now,exploding these myths we are moving forward to the bridges of these myths, focusing more on the factors which are root cause of these myths .

The tech sector is not an 

appealing environment

 for women -

When these types of statements strike us, we have to look at reality. Is that really
true? unfortunately, yes. Only 35% of women according to the Ministry of
Electronics & Information Technology play role in the IT sector. We are doing very less efforts towards this because we are influenced by the society that women just aren't interested in tech, is that so easy to wave a hand at these things like that,let me demonstrate here an example for that , just assume X women is not very much interested in teaching , cooking and in other feminine jobs now ,you might have a question why so? If we ever heard of something like this , we encourage them to explore these fields maybe later on, you will find these things or jobs interesting and pursue your career in these fields . We always Telling them How fascinating is  to teach someone , to become an air hostess and a cook as well what if we also practice these activities and encourage them as well for the tech sector too, think about it! just give a Thought to it, that
you are in a board meeting and your ideas are not being addressed properly just because
you are a female worker that downs up the morale of women who is enthusiastically working for the organization and we are making them feel and rely on this statement that , yeah!! "Tech is not for me", these implementations don’t seem to captivate women in the sector of Tech.

The decorum of sidelining women just not more limited to the professional level it also residing in educational sectors too, if we take an examples of the technical teams for competitions which are organized in our colleges on different levels whether it is hardware related or software , the team formation procedure is quite simple for them because if you ever notice that, there are very few only girls
team in the competitions and majorly the team ups looks full of boys and again very few teams standing there which consist of only one girl as a team member (because of competition necessity) why this? Why we have never seen a team that includes the same numbers of gender, why not a team full of girls and, boys participating with them? Debunking this myth here as per the competitions requires more team -work, responsible team members in which girls are way more good or we can say they can land up a team in a very well way if they gotta chance, girls are more supportive, good in managing the work load,works with more integrity, and disciplined as per studies. Here, Am not saying that only girls possess these traits but if we don’t praise them at their initial stages of learning and building, how they gather up the courage to speak up at big platforms, if they feel so immersed at these stages of life.


When we encourage someone no matter what gender that person has, that builds up a positive aura in them, to do more good in their fields and to leverage the opportunities they might have not discovered because lack of awareness.They more likely to spread their wings for opportunities and their dream of life as well,no matter if that person is female or male. 

You can’t balance your tech career,

 family life &

 social life -

Women are too emotional 

while taking decisions - 

 Women in tech fields --  or in any leadership positions, really — still face a fear
 of judgment for being 'overly emotional.' you have to learn how to be more
assertive and ask for what you want, without worrying what people would
think, feeling like it may be too much and having to apologize for it. There’s
 no need to apologize for standing on your ground and asking for what you
 need and deserve!"

People misunderstood the fine line between "empathy" and "being
emotional" and judging  female workers as they were way more emotional to choose
the right options and taking right decisions for the organizations.when you try to listen to someone's problem analyze it accordingly and then try to finding solution for that, I think that’s a very smart move and it is also proven that women take the long-sighted decision for business as well as for the organization in which they are working and that also turns as positive and effective move as well.



By debunking all these myths we are at the end of this but just ask yourself
are you not having any biases over this issue?
Nodding head to this isn’t going to get us anywhere,
They tend to arise from social, cultural ,values, and beliefs and we don’t
even notice them developing around us rapidly – it’s outside of our control
and we don't realize it, But what we can do here is to try and root them out
 and acknowledge them how a person is going and doing well in the field so that we can leverage both of them in the Tech sector for more advancements , whether it's a woman or a man. Maybe then we can minimize and debunk or explode these myths which have been planted roots in our mind, or at least make a conscious effort not to pass them on to others as well and this won't happen near around us, with our
 fellow classmates or colleagues and others female workers who are
 enthusiastically working towards tech sector to contribute and evaluate the
IT sector as well.

Hope you do some efforts for changing these myths around yourself and please share your views as well,  if you ever experienced or have seen something like that around you ! 

THANK YOU

                                                                                         -PRACHI VATS

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