Situation..Situation.!!

Before the CNN crew tracks this blog...let me tell you there is NOTHING going on here! For people who are familiar with CNN, I am talking about ' The Situation Room'.

Since when has news become a show than the real thing? Why is it that we need advertisement for a news show? I say this because I hear reporters on that show say things like - 'CNN - your Hurricane headquarters'. I kind of get the feeling that people here are waiting for things to happen! Though nothing against CNN itself, they do seem to be the 'World Leader in News'. Firstly, do we need anything like a news channel? Aren't we all just satisfied with the evening news for an hour, which summarizes everything that happens around the world? Why do we have to know EVERYTHING that happens around the world every single minute?

This, in my opinion has just led to an information overflow and partly responsible for people being scared and over precautious about things that they normally wouldn't have, only because they heard about a rare incident happen to someone somewhere in the world!

I know, I might differ from people who think information is key and it is the 'Information Age' which has driven this world into globalization. And that is why you have the Internet! For people who really need all the news, there is CNN.com, which has enough and more news than anyone would possibly desire! Why have a TV show with anchors trying to impress people so they can make a career out of it? Isn't this what happened with Anderson Cooper? He literally had a TV show, filming himself and his thoughts during the Katrina crisis and now he has a book, exactly during hurricane season this year! As much as I beleived he did a good job about being there and covering the story, wait a minute.... he has just made business out of it!

We do need journalists and I respect what they are doing when it comes to covering stories at places you and I wouldn't want to be. But are they doing it because they want the publicity, or because they really like what they are doing? A musician myself, I would think journalism is more like music, more like an art....something for which you need a passion to do. But there is a fine line that journalists have to tread when it comes to covering stories, because they deal with stories about real people and it is very hard to see them do business with it! I miss Peter Jenings for this. He was a journalist too, a news anchor, but there were no frills around him - no Situation Room, or PeterJennings Live, or PJ tonight! Yet, he remains one of the respected journalists in the country.

Like one of them aptly said on the radio about the hurricane season, reporters are just waiting for one storm to leave the coast of Africa, and you can see reporters rushing into Florida already talking about a hurricane brewing in the Atlantic! That's how much they are waiting for 'things to happen'!