Media has different role

The mushroom growth of social media news pages might have thrown the challenge in the field, but some of the people associated with the pages are not adhering to the professional guidelines as it has been observed that most of the pages are presently busy in uploading the videos of domestic issues. In the recent past, a number of people have visited Srinagar’s press enclave here where they talked about the family issues and unfortunately got media attention as well, which has put a blemish on the journalism as a number of people have been seen criticizing the role of media persons and also raising their concern over the prevalent situation of fourth pillar of the democracy. One fails to understand how the people, having no knowledge of journalism are being allowed to come up with a social media page and calling himself a journalist. Lacking ethics means, lacking everything and thereby the events are testimony to the fact that the lack of awareness could land the whole fraternity in trouble and also damage the sanctity of the fourth pillar of democracy. If such a situation is not prevented this time by taking any serious call at the juncture, a time is not when the youngsters will prefer to stay away from the profession. It is a time when a joint meeting of all the existing media associations should sit together and play its pivotal role in setting the things correct and ensure that the sanctity of the profession is preserved.