Glamour is an appearance of enhanced attractiveness. This word can easily mesmerize the audience. But wait is it always true. Not so frequent ,but recent cases of suicides have left an eclipse for Glamour industries. The sucides are the latest reminder of the simmer side of the fashion industry. The shimmer appears only to be only the surface while the underbelly seems to have dark and ugly side. But as human being we will ask what triggers these tragedies. Is it the intense pressure of modelling world which made them so volunerable. In many of the suicide case, the person involved in suicide was on the pinnacle of his/her carrier. So what makes this industry infamous of having seen its top most stars and beauty queens die alone ?
Vulnerable to cocktail of professional pressure, failure, and lonliness, escapism becomes a necessity more than just a tendency. Media are the fac of the celebrities. The vulnerability is aggravated by the media news and repurcussion is beyond the imagination.Media coverage of celebrity suicides has two types of negative repurcussion. One is the impact on those close to victim. These persons become the fodder for the mdia, until media do not loose interest in their privacy.another one is the victim itself.
Talking to media has become the career launcher for many Indians. You swing from anoymity to recognition with every media comment. Friends and colleagues of victim are tapped for any posssible angle, and many are happy to obilidge.
The left over things are covered by our Police Department. Can they be told not to feed media machine in case of suicides attempt even if the suicide falls under indian penal act. Reporters usually make police contacts to invade the privacy. And many times they are ven successful.
The report analysis shows that the suicide graph surges after the media catches the front page for suicides.Increases in the teenage suicides have also been reported follwoing the news stories on suicides in international studies.
Does that mean Media should stop reporting suicides. They are the faces of the society. Keeping a barrier on their freedom can affect the society. The flaw is not in media but it is in the way of reporting. Reporting can be constructive. In fact there are many ways to report a news in healthy manner without making it hipe.
But media will not rein its voyeurism left to themselves. An effective companits council is likeky to be best remdial agent.
Thanks DK for first comment.
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