Monday, 18 June 2012

The Great Indian News Laughter League!!


Indian television has hundreds of channels dedicated to comedy shows , drama series , stand – up comedy , reality TV , sports (which is mostly cricket) but if someone is really looking for entertainment , there is nothing better than the Indian news channels . News channels should come under the comedy genre .
There used to be a time when “breaking news” actually meant something. These days every second news comes with those two words. What exactly happened to the news? why are the making such mockery of themselves ?did the people who are running these channels dumb down (become stupid) or do they think that it is the people of India that prefer such stupid things ? Let’s have a look at couple of recent so called “Breaking News”.
So let’s start with Politics, am sure you all are wondering how can anyone go wrong with politics , politicians and news right ?Well reporters consider what a politician ate for lunch more important then what he is doing for the people or for his party(mainly for his pocket) but leaving all of this aside what the news channel showed as “breaking news” was what the politician had for lunch and broadcasted it for more than 2 hours , this makes me wonder what sort of viewers are they trying to target here ? How does this become breaking news? How was this even passed by the channel head to be shown on National Television?
Next is Bollywood , the main source of entertainment for all of us other than foreign movies , I personally see the bollywood movies just to laugh at how pathetic the script was but none the less entertaining . So how can the news channels go wrong here? Well, here is a “breaking news” for you , Amitabh Bachan ko Thand lagi . The questions that pop up again are the same .To some extent I get it that people in India worship Amitabh Bachan and his family but how does this qualify to be a Breaking News? why they were showing this news they were actually taking live calls from people .
Now this according to me is the most amusing piece of breaking news i have ever seen of TV . ill quote the news channel .”Kya aliens gai ka doodh peeti hain?” (do aliens drink cow’s milk ?) . Do I even need to start with this section of news? What I am assuming is that the news channel here is secretly running experiments on aliens and has concluded this but since they can’t reveal to the world that they have a secret laboratory they are stating that aliens do have milk but in the form of a question so that we don’t ask them questions on how they know .
These are just a few of the Breaking news that I have shared here. But the question is still out there, is the Indian media reaching a new low ?
P.s – chain sein sona hain toh jaag jao!

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