DEBATE TOPIC: "Breaking News or Hallow Defamation with special emphasis on Independent Journalism" Please give some ideas on the topic. Also plz briefly describewhat "hallow defamation" means.

Such questions are meant to test your writing skills and should be attempted on your own. However, these points might help you elaborate:

- The public relies heavily on media reports to form get information about a particular person, burning issue or breaking news.
- Public opinion is formed by watching television news reports, listening to radio broadcast or reading the newspaper reports.
- Often, news channels sensationalise news for higher TRPs or viewer-ship, newspapers add spice to hook more readers.
- Hollow defamation of a person's reputation gets the public hooked to that news: they then follow it in the subsequent news reports faithfully.
- 'Breaking news' has become the favourite tag-line of all news channels that put a martyr's death and a particular 'God-shaped radish' on the same platform with the same urgency!
- News has become a farce rather than a sacred responsibility to bring forth the truth.
- Journalists need to move away from dramatising news to gain followers, they need to rely on veracity for their popularity.