Friday, October 22, 2010

Media Creates Hype for TRPS

Media is the buzz word all over around us we generally talk about its role ,attend conferences , workshops but have we spend some time on really understanding what is going on around us how Media we think what is our approach and most importantly who is influencing it.

If you take a remote and open the TV the first thing you see is the sense that creates hype most of the time and where is the main issue you can’t see any where the point is media bring news so you watch it with excitement and when they feel that people don’t want to see or they are not interested in the topic anymore they change the issue.

There are a lot of examples the major one  is of recent flood media showed the footages of displaced people and the conditions which they are suffering from but now there is not a single news about it because people get bored of it and new issues are fresh beside the fact that how much it is important to frequently highlight the flood news so people remember it that they have to help their brothers and sisters but because news channels follow the motto of sell the news which creates TRPS more than anything else so we are far away from reality.


Security at Flea Markets

Karachi Sunday Market


Flea markets that are located mostly on wide areas give chance to shopkeepers to sell their products and items to customers even on weekends .The product and stuff ranges from food ,grocery, clothing ,stationary,books,paintings, handicraft ,furniture and you name it everything is available at flea markets which also contribute a lot to country revenues.

Because of the availability of all these items under one roof mostly families do their shopping’s on Sundays it attracts huge amount of customers and not local people go and shop there a lot of tourist also like to go and buy goods .If you ever been to Sunday market of elite areas you have seen even wife’s of different country ambassadors are doing shopping their and a lot of tourist also buying local items.

When we have such attraction for tourist at a time where our country is facing a lot of difficulties and terrible image I think it’s become necessary on government to take serious measures for the high security of flea markets as there no walk through gates and cctv cameras for monitoring and also not enough police. This is the issue which authorities should take instant notice of and safe markets which is contributing well in GDP.


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