Marriages are made in Heaven. But celebrations are made on the planet Earth. The prayers for it are made in the temple of Tirupati and the media splashes it as headline news. Finally, the audiences enjoy it as sumptuous morning breakfast or dinner and all live happily thereafter.
The marriage of Abhishek Bachan and Aishwara Rai has come as godsend as the media looks hungrily for any news involving celebs and what better opportunity it could get than covering the ceremony. Having got a drubbing very recently at the sad turn of events in the cricket World Cup, 2007 with India Team letting them down, media expects it stands a chance to cheer its audience. What if it is a private and personal event? What if the host and hostess have already announced that there would be only few invitees. Those who call themselves investigative journalists ‘risk’ being shooed away from the premises (as it happened in the other celebs’ marriage of Arun Nayar and Liz Hurley with which the media was so deeply engrossed) just only to carry out their basic duty of reporting faithfully information to its audience! Who cares whether the readers of print media or viewers of television want such information in the first place or not and whether any other information they consider useful could have been provided by the media in stead.
I think it just exposes our intellectual impoverishment. Is it not?
