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Lost In Time
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All of last week, I was glued to the television. I was watching the news of the terror attacks in Mumbai, "live", "as it happened". And I've been following the news more or less regularly, which is surprising because I stopped watching news channels a couple of years ago. Somehow I feel that media journalists in India are very incompetent and unprofessional. They act like they're the leaders, like they have a right to question everybody, and the questions are so often irrational, or as is the case most of the time, some questions have no answers and, yet the journalists demand an answer, any answer, and then dissect and discuss and debate on that answer. Some time back, an tv journalist had questioned P Chidambaram, and was rebuked by him for asking matters of national interest on foreign soil. Maybe its because they're younger that they have no experience or, I think, its mostly journalistic arrogance. On several Indian news channels, news anchors, in my view, are warmongering. They have no respect for anyone else's opinion, are occassionally rude, get angry and it looks like all they want to do is to push forward their own points of view and make the invited guests and speakers admit that the news anchor is right in saying what he is saying. Its like tabloid news on tv. No one is sure what they're reporting. As long as its a long list of sentences blurted out in regular intervals, its called reporting. Everything is sensationalised, is over the top. People's sorrows are played out so that the viewer can sit on his couch and cry with them. Its just too much.

December 4, 2008 | 9:40 PM Comments  0 comments

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