Hear him: God's Megaphone(4)

Hear him: God's Megaphone(4)

Before the advent of cable television and onset of private channels, there used to be only one national television channel called, Doordarshan.  Doordarshan in English means Distant Vision.  Today it is called, DD, in short form.    Before the television era, we had only AIR or All India Radio.   All India Radio's on-air time was called Akashvani.  Akashvani means the 'sound which comes from the air' 'from the sky'.

In the beginning there used to be only few programmes.  The most important of them being News.   In 80's,  elders used to educate their children to watch, without fail, English News programme to follow their diction, pronounciation, grammar so as to capture the language.   There used to be one or at the most of two news-hours during the day, if I remember right.   Whatever news, whether it was about our state, country, sports, cinema, weather, international events etc., we were all dependent on DD news.  Gone are those olden days….or golden days…if I may say so!

Zoom to 2020.   A web-article says that there are 375  24-Hour News channels all over the world.  Of them 82 are in India.  So many news channels to cover so many happenings in the world.  What is the game behind it?

The abbreviation NEWS stands for "Notable events, weather and sports".  According to Oxford dictionary, "News is newly received or noteworthy information, especially above recent events usually a broadcast or published report, not previoiusly known to some".    

Today , with so much to see, people are asking which News channel I can rely upon, which is the only neutral and unbiased channel?

Doordarshan News and Akashvani  have (almost) become a forgotten thing for now….is not it?

Let me ask you a question…let me probe you little bit….what comes to your mind…or who comes to your mind when you hear the terms

A voice from the heaven or sky  said….. or Akashvani Said…..any guess

                       

(Megaphone will roar…)