"Breaking News" seems to be buzz word these days for all the news channel. A calf born with 2 heads is categorised as Breaking News by India TV. A mere thought of a mere mortal politicain thinking to resign is also categorised as BN. Aish and Abhishek’s pooja was splashed across multiple days and we had sooo many priests and tantriks evaluating what would have been the best possible solution for the Bachchan! Well Big B is bigger than anything in India but worst still, Mallika’s fallout on her performance on the new year eve was telecasted for 2 days non-stop by various channels discussing on wardrobe, money taken etc etc. There was no intent of showing how real India celebrated the new year.
Has the mindset changed of the Indian public from watching proper news to listening and watching infotainment news? Or is it a ploy working well for news channels to increase their TRPs?
Those were the good old days when on New Yrs Eve the channel would telecast the recap of all the main events(National n International). I was shocked to see all the major news channel(AajTak, Zee News, India TV) going for comedy based skits. Have they ran out of ideas or simply couldnt bother to spend effort to show us something meaningful and logical to the nation?
People like Rajat Sharma, Prabhu Chawla seem to interview the guests with a sole intention of pulling them down and making them guilty of something or the other. Personally I feel Prabhu Chawla is the worst interviewer, even worse than Simi Garewal. He does not respect his guests and doesnt even let them complete their responses before he fires another irrelevant question. Looks like he is the most jealous person of his guest’s achievements.
Talking of AajTak, which has claimed to won another best new channel award. I wonder on what basis do the judges evaluate these awards. Almost all of their news reporters are shabbily dressed and sport untidy beards. They conduct reviews/discussions standing and the news reporters rubbing hand in the show suggesting its either too cold in the studio or they are getting bored!
Can we urge the goverment to lay down some guidelines to these news channels so that they can differentiate and evaluate as to what be categorised as news and what not. I hope someone from the news fraternity reads this article and discusses the issues mentioned. Hopefully good sense would prevail someday.