Take a stroll through international news media channels - CNN, BBC, Fox News. you won’t find any of them constantly thumping their chests about being Number 1, Being The Best, Being Ahead of Everybody Else, Always The First To Report a Story. and so on and on and on. It’s unbearable.
This so-called "news channel" does not report news - it shoves its opinion down your throat - take it or leave it. It takes the cheapest shots. It has no ethics, no principles and no manners. Its reportage is unbelievably biased, twisted and - quite often - a pack of outright lies. And if a news item is not sensational enough, or juicy enough or sleazy enough, they don’t report it.
The channel represents a blot on the name of debate, intellectual discourse and analytical journalism. Mr Arnab Goswami’s version of "debate" is that: If you disagree with me, I will release a pack of minions to shout you down. In fact, an old-fashioned journalist from the print era describes the News Hour as Arnab-in-a-Box screaming at nine other screamers in respective boxes. You can’t call this a "debate" by any stretch of imagination!
This probably the only channel that runs its own promos as "editorial content" - yes! During the ad break, you’ll get a counter that states back in so many minutes and so many seconds. When the counter reaches 0:00 - that’s when the loud Times Now promos begin. It’s cheap, it’s disgusting and it isn’t journalism!
In the final analysis, Times Now is not about news - it’s about boorishness, arrogance, chest-thumping, misbehaviour, embellishment, sensationalism, opinionated one-sided diktats and a completely warped view of journalism.