The 24 hour news channels from India are pathetic. Some of the Regional Channels are pretty good, but the English News Channels are horrible. All of them are funded by foreigners, have a specific agenda, twists the news to suit their agenda, are extremely biased and at the best of times concentrates of trivia. The anchors screech and scream (just listen to Burkha Dutt of NDTV - Insufferable), the reporters on the ground mouth inanities and more often than not news is based on available visuals rather than the other way around. Worse still, Indian channels must of the only ones in the World where they keep on repeating a 10 second visual 6 times during the course of a one minute news clip, which can be so irritating to the viewer. Then, there is the 'Breaking News'. The concept of Breaking News is to alert the viewers as to a major news story developing that the viewer needs to be aware of immediately. But, for our news editors anything ranging from a stray dog getting run over in Delhi, to Sanjay Dutt being taken to court to Manmohan Singh opening the toilet door is Breaking News. Finally, note the kid glove treatment meted out to Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. Hardly, one negative word is uttered against them. How many of you know that Priyanka Gandhi's Father-in-law (Robert Vaderas father) committed suicide 6 months back? Channels that splash Aarushi murder case for days on never bothered to even mention this.
Recently, I read this hilarious take on how NDTV will report,............................. well, let it be a suspense. Read for yourself by clicking the following link,
http://india-in-my-nightie.blogspot.com/2009/10/two-persons-hurt-in-climbing-mishap.html
