Crap on the roll

Hi guys,
U might have got the idea of what this post is all about from the heading. That's right I am talking about the personal lives getting sensationalised by the media crews. Every other day news channels intrude the privacy of unaware citizens. Merrut episode where the couples were beaten up by the cops did a good thing by putting police personnnel to scrutiny but the couples were also made an easy target of negative publicity.
Recently, I read in Indian Express about two adult women staying together in a particular town and a news channel giving them the publicity they thought would do some good. But fearing societal backlash, one of the women commited sucide and another had to escape from public eye. Another one on Star News was a footage of a husband getting a severe beating from his wife. Nobody heeded to his complaints so he installed a camera and recorded the whole scene. It's ok to record is as part of an evidence but showing it on a news channel doesn't make sense. And what was that obscure old man envisaging his death on a particular day and time? Instead of rubbishing his claims, the whole battery of mediapersons stood witness to his tale of life or death (whatever that was).
So, what kind of empowerment are we generating if at all we claim to?
People are calling for media attention and we are happy to give them that. No filters, no gatekeeping, nothing. We are diving head on into an open society where anybody can peep into anybody else's bedroom and another person does not feel bad until he faces the consequences.
I hope we are living in the darkest of times. So, twilight is not far now. There is no more limit of immorality we can stoop to. So, let's celebrate the death of news media and wait for its reincarnation.