A Question of Responsibility

"With great power comes great responsibility".
These are the lines with which Peter Parker (a.k.a. Spiderman ) brings to end the proceedings of the classic Hollywood flick SPIDERMAN. As classy and adorable these dialogues might sound , they carry the weight of an Old Wizard's wise advice. It's not in possessing great power that we become great, but it is in our greatness to carry on with our powers without misusing them. Well the above have been cited by me in context with the powers vested by MEDIA that has often been misused by them. I have always been of the view that the media be made free from the shackles of governmental authority for its the duty of the media to get the truth out. But there is a thin line between getting the truth out and intruding someone's privacy. And this line has often been crossed by the media. I still remember the day when Princess Diana died (thanks to the paparazzi intent on getting some intimate pictures of the Lady with her boyfriend Dodi-Al-Fayed) . She was a lady I admired and adored not only for being beautiful and gracious but also for being so humane and charitable that even after her death she continues to rule the heart of millions. Her tragic death is just one out of the many cases handled badly the media. Not to forget about the hundreds of divorces yielded by the ever-over-anxious media playing spoilsport with the happily married lives of the CELEBs... As Andy Warhol once pointed out that everyone of us has his share of 15 minutes of fame, the media true to these words raises people to the zenith of stardom only to dismantle their very foundation for the rest of their lives. If this world has to be renovated then it is the media that has to understand it's purpose and set things right. It has to understand the enormous power it possesses and handle it with utmost responsibility.