Samikhsya Bureau
A news item in The Guardian, London, carries an item basing on a study by OfCom which suggest at the fast decline in the number of young television watchers in UK and have made their way towards the social media for the daily dose of information. The study indicate as a sharp shift in the choice of the younger mass which has developed a habit for a rapid change in the taste of news they look for.
Broadly speaking, the trend is no more an isolated change in taste among the younger mass in UK but, with the invasion of technology and spread of social media impact, the trend has virtually bandied out the contours of countries. Where a sizable number of youth choose the social media as a come-in-handy news tool than the televisions. The trend has started and now it appears irreversible for some time to come.
From the television to now social media, the transition has become a near invisible phase. Even, most of the youngsters who take on to different handles like twitter etc are blissfully amnesiac about the past habits.
But, somewhere and somehow, there is an inner conflict within many that, can we abandon all and go ahead with all that available and refuse to be aware of the values that our old habits held once. There is , of course, a paradigm shift and it is difficult to recall when the transition occurred .
Say, for example, the age old habit of an early morning time, a cup of tea and a newspaper in the hand, sitting on the backyard patio or in the front varendah, a nostalgia so deep-rooted to be swept away so easily. How many of the present people scribble anything on a paper before preparing the outline of anything , be it news or essay or a letter or even a list for grocery to be bought. Rarely they do.
Many great journalists of yesteryears were of the opinion that, to write something on a paper is a kind of physical and mental involvement that requires a great amount of thinking and re-thinking which is directly linked the conceptual process.
If it is a cyclic in nature, then somewhere down the line a crystalisation is to be there in the days to come when writing and reading are back in vogue.
