museman

My life has taken a revolutionary turn in the last one year. I never thought I would be so fortunate as to get to know Amitabh Bachans family personally. . Now, I know them so closely, I can tell you where they are, at any point of the day. I can tell you the the name of the next endorsement Amitabh is going to take up. Sauna Slim belt or some variant of it. Back support or something you can call it. I think I also know the personal priest of Amitabh personally.< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

Sarcasm apart, what has gone wrong with our news channels? Why is it that I hate to watch news channels now? And I am sure I am not the only one. I was a normal kid. I never watched news. Then came adolescence and came star plus. So, it was from 9 to 10 that me and my father used to juggle between Star news and regional news. Then came Star News and 24 hour news channels. They were ok in the starting. But now, I guess they are far more unethical than our politicians. With time, I am sure, news channels will make it to the top 5 list of 'We Hate'.

I guess we are willingly being fed bullshit in the name of news. Who cares if Amitabh and his family went to < ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Benares for a prayer. The news channels played it live, all through the night. And guess what, I did watch it once in a while. Compulsion it was. Every news channel was playing it.  I had no other choice. On Jan 1st, Mallika was on stage in Mumbai or Delhi, I don't remember, and the the whole nation danced away to the TV footage. Some poor hapless lecturer slaps (allegedly) a student and she finds her place on national television.

Almost everyone has a special program on crime reportage now. From local news channels to the national ones. Please watch these programs, you will find the most colorful anchors for these programs. 'Crime Watch' anyone?

There is only a subtle difference between the original and the Pastiche. Say, Rang De Basanti was a good movie. Girls in some city staging a dharna against cell phones being banned in college is pathetic. National channels, making thirty minutes news about it, apart from being appalling, has also sadly become the norm of the day.

I honestly don't know why I don't like it when these news channels air

news based on the Mannu sharma case. I guess Ram Jetmalani put my thoughts aptly in words when he spoke to IBN 7, with the chip of a girl, as he so rightly puts it,  But I don