The Changing occupation of Indian News Channels

A boon for the professional Saas-Bahu sadists and silly comedy hunters, if you out of laziness or occasional work miss your favorite show then tune into any news channel to catch the highlights. For those of you who fall under this category, please stand up and applaud the patient hard work of the TRP predators. Since the onslaught of 24x7 news channels the development has been the key. The paradigm has shifted from journalism to sensationalism. In the mid-nineties how often did we see the story of Ravan and his Kingdom, the public polls on who is the murderer?? There have been numerous instances where the basic ethic code of Journalism has been crossed, if the government can ban some news channels for false and fabricated sting operations then even these provocative ones should be dealt with some amount of seriousness. If we look towards the quality of reporting and interpretive journalism, its taken a nose-dive, while some channels have still preserved themselves and have carried on with some ethics the others have in my words “lost it”. The icing on the rotten cake is the language, tone and expressions used by the reporters and news readers which is nothing short of a linguistic disaster. Most of the times its just pure embarrassment, when you sit and watch the neo-idiot box with your family and they serve you a spicy hot dish of Malika or Rakhi Sawant, you give them a Not-My-Mistake! and Why-Are-You-Staring-At-Me? looks and fumble with a remote. The producers complain that they feel dehydrated of stories but why should they start with the diahorrea style drama?? God knows or The Supreme Court knows when the whip should be cracked or the noose should be pulled but till then lets leave our younger generation vulnerable to this infotainment.