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Palki Sharma’s honest take on journalism today
Brut India
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8/9/2023
“Maintaining some dignity but also generating revenue…” Palki Sharma Upadhyay spoke about the challenges of balancing content and views.
: Raj Shamani
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Journalists also have to pay EMIs. They can't always be poor, right?
00:03
It's a fact that more people in the world are watching cat videos than anything else.
00:07
At the end of the day, we have to stay afloat.
00:09
We want the views, we want the numbers, we want the revenue.
00:12
The number of people who want to enter journalism is dropping.
00:28
It's reducing year by year.
00:31
Why is this happening?
00:32
Because people are smarter.
00:34
I think people are smarter.
00:37
I say so because see journalism is a calling.
00:40
It's not a job. It cannot be a profession.
00:43
You have to be slightly crazy to pursue the same thing.
00:46
Pay scales in journalism are abysmally poor.
00:49
So the fruits of your labor come very late in life if you're a journalist.
00:54
People have kind of like lost respect for how the journalism has been perceived in the country.
01:02
The trust which people had, now it's no more there.
01:07
Why do you feel that this is going on?
01:09
If you look at India, in the early days of journalism, when there was independence,
01:14
there was this moral purpose, right?
01:18
That you are writing against the British.
01:20
There was a greatness.
01:22
After that, there was the journalism phase.
01:25
You were always in the revolutionary phase.
01:28
So people feel that this is very respectable.
01:33
But journalists also have to pay EMIs.
01:36
They can't always be poor, right?
01:37
They can't always be wearing chappals.
01:39
But they've always been shown as...
01:42
Everything is changing. Like netas are also changing.
01:47
There was a time when they wore dhoti, kurta.
01:49
Then now someone's walking in a t-shirt.
01:51
People are changing, right?
01:53
So journalists are also changing.
01:55
Plus there is an explosion of media.
01:57
There was a time when they were the only ones connecting you to those in power.
02:01
They were bringing you the news because you had no other source of news.
02:06
But today, sources of information are so many
02:09
that you don't need that messenger.
02:11
You need that person either to verify or to give context
02:17
or to explain that if someone has said this,
02:21
then what does it mean?
02:22
And how can your life be affected by this?
02:25
I think just by chasing events,
02:28
your whole model has become a little hollow.
02:31
What will we do today?
02:33
Today we will track that this journey is going from here to here.
02:36
Then if there are 200 people,
02:39
then we will take the bite of 20 people.
02:41
You tell me, how are you feeling?
02:43
Are you feeling hot? Are you feeling cold?
02:45
Do you think anything is changing?
02:47
What is this?
02:48
It's the stated preference of everybody.
02:50
I want to watch good content, meaningful stories.
02:53
But it's a fact that more people in the world
02:55
are watching cat videos than anything else.
02:57
Yeah.
02:58
Right?
02:59
We are not running cat videos.
03:00
Someone else is making them.
03:02
So, this is what you want to watch?
03:04
So, it's not…
03:05
The media has its flaws.
03:07
But media is only one part of the story.
03:10
At the end of the day, we have to stay afloat.
03:12
We want the views.
03:13
We want the numbers.
03:14
We want the revenue.
03:15
And if this is our consumer,
03:18
then we have to, I think, make some tough choices
03:22
how far will I push
03:24
and how much can I go down this road
03:27
while maintaining some dignity but also generating revenue.
03:31
That's a real challenge.
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