I found this article dumped amongst the files in my PC. Well it's an article which i wrote for my college magazine a few months back. The edition has not rolled out as yet, so i thought you people might have a glance at it....so here it goes..

Aapko kaisa lag raha hai?

With the advent of times, a lot many things in India have developed length and breadth. May it be for good or bad? And one thing that has actually reached the heights of unprofessionalism is the way today’s news channels telecast and present news to the masses in the country. A tiny little story is exploded to such unbound proportions that it seems like we are viewing some kind of bollywood masala movie.We have criticized the movies, The MTVs and The Channel Vs for depicting vulgarity in their content, well hang on a minute! Just switch on to some Indian news channel and they are no less in this regard or may be farther ahead than above mentioned modes. So next time why go to a cinema hall for a flick, when you have the 24 hrs service at home on these news channels. A porn film or clip which has been aired via MMS service on the mobile phones is telecast without any shame and ethics. Remember the clips of Preity Zinta , Riya Sen, Fardeen Khan with Koena Mitra(Well I only know about them because I watched them in the so called NEWS, no other means, LoLzz).Even if some poor guy(just like me) has not come across this MMS, will get to know about it from these channels. And what to say about the impact it has on the young minds. Imagine people smuggling the recordings of these news channel telecasts rather than porn films. And it isn’t far when we have viewer ratings for news channels too.

Another very interesting thing is the way these channels collect news. The so called “special” correspondents go to every nook and corner of India gathering the most unwanted and most un-happening news of all times. Reporting even the family problems as news from the most remotest of villages, where even the animals fear to tread (well fair to say “Man is Social Animal”). The next step involves the editing and the telecast of the shit collected. This is done in great style, adding some clip transitions and rocking music in the background (Remixes should take a peek at them). And if Sachin Tendulkar slams a century or if there is again some controversy about our Dada Sourav Ganguly, then it’s like bread and butter for the news channels. Sometimes I feel that news channels are more happy than Sachin over his century, and why not? They won’t have to run to villages for the “news” for some days. But some veteran cricketers sure have got a new job to do, as the “guest panel” after the end of the days play, giving away their views to some silly questions asked by the anchors. And what funny names these news channels give to the cricket news. “Pitch ke Badshah”, “Match ke MahaRathi”and what not. And the most hilarious, which me and my younger brother enjoy the most is the name they have given to Mutiah Muralidharan, “ India ka JamaiRaja”. So that makes all the guys and gals of India as Brother In-Laws and Sister In-Laws of Muralidharan. Amazing, wonder if he is going to register this feat in Guinness Book of World Records for the most number of In-Laws. You talk of cricket, well put your eyes on tennis. The teenage girl Sania Mirza is performing so well in the international arena, bringing laurels to the country, but these people haven’t even spared her. Some non-sense Fatwah issued by a Muslim cleric was all these news channels needed to burn a tyre and warm up their hands. A news channel even made a computerized picture of Sania Mirza wearing some kind of veil and playing tennis in that dress.

The most disgusting and highly un-ethical attitude is shown by these news channels when there is some natural calamity or devastation caused by a terrorist attack in the country. And this is when I get the urge to get to the news spot and give that idiot correspondent a blow on his/her face. I call them idiots because they hardly know what to ask from the people or from the cops at the scene. A person has lost his house due to an earthquake or a tsunami, and this idiot correspondent runs up to him and asks, “Aapko kaisa Lag Raha hai”, “Jab yeh hua tab aap kya kar rahe the”, “ Kya aapko pata tha ki yeh hone wala hai”. Gimme a break! Does all this matter. Someone has lost his life’s earnings or may be some kin and you ask such non-sense questions. If there is a bomb blast or some fire has broken out, then these news channels are busy showing the charred and mutilated bodies, detached limbs of the victims and what not. And then the anchors brag about this telecast, boasting and patting their backs that they were the first ones to reach the spot and show it live. It would be more rewarding if they had carried out some relief work for the victims, instead of showing the bizarre scenes.

I remember an instance when The Big B, Amitabh Bachchan had undergone a major operation. And an idiot correspondent sneaked into the high security area, where Amitabh Bachchan was admitted, just to get the coverage. The poor old guy was fighting for his life at the operation table and these idiots were busy clicking their cams, at his unconscious body.
Is this respect for the Actor or sheer meanness, just to cash in the TRP ratings.

One news channel airs a special show, mark the word “special”, as they say. The show is named “Kaal Kapaal Mahakal”. The first thing in the world is to have a hefty laugh at the name of this pathetic show. Well I still haven’t figured out what the show is aimed at. It shows some Tantriks, consuming their own excreta’s, eating limbs left unburnt in a pyre, and what not. One thing’s for sure, you can’t watch this show while having food without blowing it out.

Well that’s all for me I guess, I have so much more to share on this mass stupidity being aired day in and day out, but I’ll leave the rest for you to figure out.

After reading all this………………………….”Aapko Kaisa Lag Raha Hai!!”………..