Nightmare called news channels

Weekends are probably the best part of working bachelor's life.If you are an average joe like me(read as couch potatoe like me) , you sit around lazily and watch the TV on weekends.If that is what you are doing , then life will be pretty messy I guess.The quality of TV programmes is similar to quality of movies running in the city , which means it's going to be rubbish that you have to put up with.

Turned off by all that nonsense , I switched to news channels.My god , I am yet to figure out how news channels can be so dumb.Sample this. Rahul Dravid , the Indian cricket captain is playing in his 100th test match.I know it's an important mile stone, but there was way too much hype .I mean it' almost as if he had
scored a 100 centuries .There were inevitable sound bytes from former players, comparison with sachin etc I could put up with all that stuff , but the kind of questions that came from the reproters to former cricketers about Dravid were as banal as banal can get(eg : What do you think of Dravid as a batsman?).We're supposed to enjoy this .Sob soaps on TV are probably more unpredictable that this.

The modus operandi of news channels these days is - Pick up a trivial issue,blow it out of propotion , create exclusive reports on that , get a few old heads to discuss on the topic,sensationalize the issue and beat it to death till you catch hold of another potential topic that can be hyped.

All of us aware what havoc channels can do in terms of active journalism.I am bit enraged that Zee news got away with that Gudia episode.They unnecessarily fiddled with a poor lady's life just for a few TRP points.The media wants to exploit all trivial issues for news value , but wont take any responsibilty for their actions.I have a conspiracy theory about Bird flu .I seriously belive it's not Bird flu at all , it's just a seasonal poultry disease that's being by hyped by pharmaceutical majors with able support from media to mint more money.Hope my cynical thoughts are not true , but definitely not ruled out.

More posting on this will follow...

What does random revolutions mean??

I am big believer that life is nothing but a game of probability. If you have limited knowledge of probability like me , you will know that inspite all the all the talk of it being a science,it's a pretty random concept. I mean ,even if you have done a Phd in probability , you would have no clue what would turn up if you toss a coin.Makes me wonder , whether we should call probability an art or rather a philosophy.

Ok , enough running around the park.The reason this blog is called random revolutions is because it's going to be similar to life , just like you have know clue what's going to happen in your life tomorrow, I have know clue what's going to be posted next.Sometimes it'll be funny,sometimes provocative and sometimes silly .Another thing about life is that , everything happens in circles,when you are hitting a purple patch , even your everyday blunders become miracles.On your bad days , even your miraculous efforts become disasters.

It's hard to predict the future in short term ,but longterm intelligent guesses turn out right .So, even if don't know what am I going to post next , I'll have lot fun blogging and hopefully anybody reading it will enjoy it too