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...