Indian Media and its weird ways

Aaj Tak Breaking News : Amitabh Bachchan ko thand lagi ( Amitabh Bachchan has caught cold)

Times Now Breaking News : Monkeys disrupt the net practice session of the Indian Cricket Team

Headlines Today Breaking News : Rakhi Sawant slaps her boyfriend.

Well thats the Indian media for you. When such issues are made to appear so path-breaking, then you can very well wonder the authenticity and true value-addition of these Indian News channels. Being a news buff, I always look forward to some really informative stuff whenever I switch on the idiot-box, but the moment I tune in to these so called ‘TRP leaders’, it pisses me off. Everything starting from the way news is presented, to the topics covered, to the hopeless video repetitions and senseless conversations between the anchor and reporter, simply everything appears to be such a waste of time. At times I feel that these channels should be placed in the ‘entertainment’ category rather than where they are.

What I find really hard to digest is that what kind of a value-addition would I get if Rakhi Sawant slaps her boyfriend. All that these channels are trying to do is attract people by presenting over-the-top stuff. Agreed that there would be people who would be drawn towards such stuff, but what about those who actually want something useful.

Shifting the focus from the content to the anchors, I guess this lady ‘Mandeep Bedi’ who anchors the ‘Headlines Today‘ entertainment show is worth being given an award, just that the award should be for ‘The Worst Anchor‘ ever to have hosted a show. The way she talks is so disgusting and cheap in itself. At times it gives you a feeling that you are watching a third-grade stage play. Kudos to Headlines Today for having relegated her just to the entertainment section else news watching would have been such a headache. She definitely seems to be the leader of the pack of those numerous non-stop nonsense kind of anchors.

All said and done but as they say, there’s always a ray of hope. Luckily news channels like NDTV 24 X 7 havent really reached the peril of news presentation. To provide further relief there are the likes of BBC and CNBC who are still as professional as they’ve always been. Just hope that one day even these authentic ones don’t give way to cheap ‘news pre-(d)enters’.