Media Woes, Censorship Woes, More Woes

So... Tiger Woods won the British Open, oh, sorry, the Open Championship after a very difficult summer. And he broke down just as soon as he sunk the final hole, and sobbed first o his caddie's and then on his wife's shoulder. The camera remained on his face during that very private exorcism. I felt uncomfortable and changed the channel. I wish the channel had chosen an interesting piece of grass to focus on during those moments. It would've been a zillion times more decent.

A kid got stuck in a tiny hole in a small village in UP yesterday. That was all the news channels could focus on the whole day, and while that is understandable, the fear and dazedness on the boy's face made me wish for a less intrusive presence.

Not my first rant against the increasingly voyeurisitic tendencies of the media.

Doubt it'll be my last.

So the blogs got censored. Like, the whole blogging sites. Like, all the pages. And I read about how the CBFC is considering banning A films from being on TV at all. WTF???????

Democracy. Free Media. Yeah, right.

Other Woes.... Lets say its not enough to keep commending the spirit of Mumbai. Just because people move on with things, doesn't mean we stop taking steps to prevent this stuff from happeneing at all. Raise a glass to the people and forget it ever happened. No. Not Anymore.

Hoax callers... need to have to spend a few months in jail. With the meanest of prisoners. Like the overly burly 7 foot giant named Tiny.

Israel. Hizbollah. Again I say, WTF????? What on earth is any of this going to accomplish? Except killing loads of people. The Accidental war, says the Economist. They might be right. But its still very real. And then there's CNN, with the families of the 2 abducted Israeli soldiers. Ever heard of PoWs? Not that their pain isn't real. But atleast they were soldiers... what about all of those in King David hotel? What about the poor Lebanese civilians who have no idea what storm they've got caught in? And they wonder why Islamic Militantism is on the rise.