There has been no posts in Dispassionate Observer in 2012. This primarily happened because of some other engagements and a shade of laziness on my part. Regular followers of this blog were justified in questioning my absence for such a long time and they were right in speculating whether Dispassionate Observer has ended its journey. I am happy to declare today that Dispassionate Observer is again back in operation.
We are passing through a tough time amidst political instability, global recession and social unrest. However, this phase will passover sooner or later and things will again fall into place. This is the cycle of life, what goes up must come down and again rise.
The world of media is ever changing and are facing new challenges. New media, criticized by the detractors for helping in fostering monopolistic tendencies, is still one of the few platforms which offer plurality of information. Attempts are being made to regulate it as well but still there is space for hearing different viewpoints and engage in conversations. Whether some like it or not, new media will rule the media scene in the coming decade. This will happen partly because of the bankruptcy of ideas on the part of the established media forms like newspaper, television and radio and partly because of the rise in Internet literacy. More Internet literates will seek multiple media outlets from a single platform. Hence convergence will happen. However, the world today is seeking plural media and new media is giving some hope to the masses that plurality, at least to some extent, is possible.
Dispassionate Observer has crossed 7,500 page views and strive for more in days to come. It is a challenge to remain dispassionate in hard times but that is a path that this blog will continue to follow.
