The Great Indian News

The Great Indian News

What is NEWS?? It was North East West South sometimes back.

It was a medium to get updated with the latest in the world. A few years back before the arrival of satellite channels there was only DD1 channel and on it the news were mostly edited according to the government regulations. Navjot Kaur, Nalini Singh were few of the famous news readers. News just had a fix timing 9:00 P.M. and there was a curiosity about the news even if the content wasn’t up to the mark.

Times changed then came some foreign channels like BBC, CNN it raised the standard a bit but had virtually no impact on Indian news.

Then came the revolution. The arrival of private channels in the field. This raised the eyebrows of the Indian tv people and thus resulted in start of some private news shows at the national channels. One such show was Aaj Tak that was aired on DD Metro on weekdays at 10:00 P.M. .

Then a new phenomenon came into existence. It was the news channels that were competing with each other. There were endless numbers of news channels on air now. CNBC, AAJ TAK, NDTV , ZEE NEWS , STAR NEWS etc. The game began then only.

The new mantra was fast and the furious. The more sensational the news the better it is. It was all started by AAJ TAK and all news channels blindly followed the trend. The end result was the deterioration of the quality of the news and sometimes the false information too.

There was an incident when AAJ TAK reported about a driverless car. There was a big discussion that went on regarding this. People called for the discussion included mechanical engineers, automobile experts etc. but the end result was that the driver Harish Tomar had long legs so he could drive sitting on the seat next to driver. It was a huge embarrassment for the channel.

There are a few exceptional cases in this field too. CNBC has quality although a business channel but still has great amount of content to offer. The team includes Karan Thapar, Udayan Mukharjee , Mitali, Shereen Bhan, Ayesha Faridi ,Tanvir Gill and lots more.

But the channel I like the most is NDTV as I never watch the news. The only shows I watch are we the People and Big Fight. Barkha Dutt is undoubtedly the best anchor on TV.

So the war continues and I have lots more to writeWill write it sometimes later…..

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