Say Aaahhhhh...

There are times of late i feel the advent of soooo many news channels hasnt done much for newsworthy news... especially when u realize that every so called news channel only sensationalizes the every day stuff, or worse, cooks up stories...for e.g. last week i was bored on a sunday afternoon, and was flipping channels...landed on Aaj Tak who was "Breaking news"...

So i go...hmmm maybe someone important: croaked, or is croaking; has quit or quitting; has been caught on camera doing unparliamentary stuff...blah blah blah

but guess what...the news (in a hinglish presentation) is "new delhi mein ek bina driver ke tata indica ko cell phone camera mein capture kiya gaya"... and as i watch it, there is a panel discussion with "auto experts" rendering studied opinions as to how the newspaper toting person in the passenger seat cannot be controlling the car remotely !!! And as far as Aajtak's scoop goes, wasnt it lucky that someone in the neighbouring car was actually carrying a cell fone which had a great enuff cell which captured with high quality, a 5 min (ot therabout) footage of the "haunted indica"...And this went on for like...4 hours!!!!

Worse still...yesterday, same channel, different "breaking news"something about a nagin in some rural town...i didnt bother to give it the time of day, but suffice it to say everytime i skimmed past that channel...i cud see only the bloody snake...

Hasnt anyone noticed that the instances of ganeshas drinking milk, water becoming milk...or sweet or salty has exponentially increased ever since the number of news channels hit double digits???

Im sure the man with the golden voice who at one point had me and half of india tuning in to hear "Yeh thi khabren aaj tak, intezaar kijiye kal tak"...must be turning in his grave.
SP Singh ,rest in peace...though it will be difficult, but try!!!

And meanwhile Aaj tak and the multitude of channels will cover everything newsworthy, but not tell the public what they want to know. Coz they think they are indefeatable dentists, they tell us to "say aaaaahhh" and we, the great indian public will gladly do so and swallow anything that they feed us...