news channels of today

In India, we earlier had very less news channels like NDTV. But now we have channels like CNN IBN, Headlines today, aaj tak, zee news, star news, Times now.

I feel that today’s news channels are nowhere near the reality. The problem is that there comes in a major news of the day which they follow all the day. They do not reflect all that is news. Like a kid who holds a teddy bear and plays all the day fascinated, these news channels go behind a news all the day. And why do those correspondents stand at some place and keep on saying all useless things.

The Mumbai molestation case was being shown all the day in times now, headlines today, ndtv, and ibn. Dint they have any other news to telecast? Mumbai police officer rightly reacted: “please do not blow everything out of proportion. Compared to other cities, Mumbai was peaceful enough. Didn’t you reporters go along Mumbai. Do not blow everything out of proportion”

And today’s news channels are all about promoting films. I was watching a report on ndtv about heroines of 60-70s era. The reporter saud: “those were the days when scripts were written based on a heroine. But now that trend is lost. So heroines do not have importantance. And now comes madhuri!!! And the director wrote a special script for her” . So the correspondent’s love for heroine’s in this male dominated industry was to promote madhuri’s aaja nachle film!

And every time a film releases, that particular actor, director comes on all news channels and gives interview. I was laughing after seeing SRK’s interview for 3rd time in the same year on times of India. And remember how all the news channels covered the release of Om Shanti Om and said that it was a Bollywood bloackbuster and all.. But the film turned out to be an inspiration of Karz and a worst script. And a model who knows no acting called Deepika Padukone.

If you watch today’s news channels only as a source of information, then you will be somewhere in a dream ad world created by our news channels. What is the real news is not at all covered. We do not get what we really need from these news channels. There is no content at all.

And come to hindi news channels like aaj tak and zee news. You can call them as masala news channels. If a star celebrates a birthday on a day, that whole day will have special programmes.