What Matters and What Doesn't...

Mount Everest can be put to shame easily by the heights reached by the peaks created out of wayward issues by the very respectable Indian Media. There seems to be no limit on what they conduct debates on - "What's your take on Tharoor's tweet?" is the current topper, with all channels flashing ads asking people to voice their opinions on the issue. Then there is this bunch of people clad in formals, with some title or the other attached to their names discussing the issue with such fervency that it seems like no other work can go on in the nation unless a solution is found. Political debates should be responsibly based on issues that actually affect the countrymen and should aim at finding sensible solutions to them. Whether Tharoor has called the commoners "cattle" (which by the way, he did not mean to) or not is not going to affect us in any way. When there are so many pressing problems all around us, why waste valuable time blowing up trivial issues. Infact there was even one channel flashing "Are we making a big issue of of this?" and making a big issue out of even that. Come such an occasion and the leaders from the opposition parties are ready to come out with wonderful statements affirming their purity and describing how uncouth the ruling party is.
Visual media is undoubtedly the most effective means of reaching out to the people- a fact that was proved recently by the shock-induced deaths of commoners after viewing news reports of YSR's tragic death. The people who wield such a great influence on the masses should be more responsible about how they use the power.
Forget tweets. Think development and progress. Show us how efficient the policies of the government are. Point out the loop-holes. Expose corruption. Be the media for the masses to know and to be known and heard.