News Cahnnels in India--Shame of the country.

I was surfing the TV the other day and i found that there has been so many news channels competing with each other. All of them junk. Let me first make a list of news channels:

• DD News
• Star News
• NDTV
• AAj tak
• Headlines Today
• Channel 7
• NDTV India(Hindi)
• Zee news
• CNN IBN
• Times Now
• Regional News Channels(I dont know how many are there)

I have made a seperate list for the Business channels:

• CNBC(Better among the worst)
• CNBC Awaaz
• NDTV Profit
• ZEE Business

I have excluded foreign news channels like CNN, BBC,etc. Now the point i want to make is that with so many news channels around, none of the contents they show match. I mean a Breaking news on one channel is never mentioned on the other. And to my surprise most of the breaking news breaks on weekends. For ex: last weekend(FEB 11,12) AAJ Tak had a breaking news, they got hold of some old cassette in which Bollywood actors were dancing for the first naming ceremony of Dawood Ibrahim's kid way back in 1990. This weekend self proclaimed super cop Daya Nayak came on Times NOW to "spill the beans" about senior cops.

If they dont have anything then they have this usual India-Pak junk. Evryone knows that they are faking it,(wish my girl friend faked like these ppl ;-)), I mean its just a big PR boost for those Neta log, if they go in a Bus or train to Pak and hours of Breaking News for our dumb news channel.

One of newest trends is that, instead waiting for News to "break", news channels themselves make the news by carrying out Sting Operations. Though i was excited about it when it happened the first time, i got really pissed off when i saw another sting operation being carried out by CNN-IBN. Even the timing they air these news are based on the TRPs. Here is a fictious conversation in the boardroom of one of the news channels:

Annoy Roy: Ok ppl what was the TRP for the previous week??

Arkha Butt: Sir, kaafi low hain....I dont know why, it was probably because of those cricket matches.

Annoy Roy: Ben C*&%, yeh sala cricket ne to hamara jeena haraam kardiya hain....I think we should close our news channel and start a cricket channel. Ok, no problem. Did you speak to the MLAs on whom we carried the Sting operation last month? How much are they ready to give?

Arkha Butt:Sir, none of them agreed. They said go ahead and show to the janata....they will anyway forget after sometime. They think that their popularity will increase with such operations.

Annoy Roy:Yeh MLA log bhi kaafi chalu ban gaye.....Teek hai..then lets slate that for this weekend. Ok. Ab agla sting operation kab aur kispe plan kiya hain??

Arkha Butt:Sir, the agency who did the previous one are quoting 3 times the money they charged last time.

Annoy Roy:What??? are they mad or what?? Let me meet them first, i will kick their A**. If thats the case we will postpone the next one for later sometime.

Arkha Butt:oOk Sir. But, I am getting a feeling that very soon a major natural calamity is going to occur. Lets wait till this month, if nothing happens then probably we will go in for another operation on Bollywood producers.

Annoy Roy:Oh yaar, i remeber the last time u told like this, South India struck Tsunami and we struck gold. Good yaar, hope that this time also something like that happens. Ha,Ha,Ha....
Ok, Good bye ppl. Hope no one is doing a sting operations on our Talks in the board room!! LOL

Arkha Butt: That was very funny sir. LOL

Note:I dont have any intentions to hurt anyone thru this fictious conversation

So, what i mean to say by all these is that, please show us the news as it happens and most important "What actually Happens".

I want to share one the Funniest Breaking News that i have come across. It was during the time when the Sarav ganguly was being stripped of captaincy. During that time there was meeting by the BCCI, so these News hungry News channels got into act and this is how:

Breaking News: BCCI meeting started in Calcutta.

Breaking News:BCCI meeting in progress in Calcutta.

Breaking News: BCCI meeting ends in Calcutta.

Gimme a "Break" guys!!!