Jan 03, 2004 12:06 AM
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(Updated Jan 03, 2004 12:10 AM)
With all the monies available to them Star News is a let down for an avid news-watcher. The channel with all its good intentions lands up in its own mess a number of times during any given day.
First and foremost the biggest problem with this channel is trumpeting about itself on its own airtime. I thought the painfully loooooong and boring self promotional ads are only limited to few early days after launch. But they keep on repeating them and now people are sick of them. They take too many breaks and I suspect that their break-time is longer than the actual newscast time.
The problem is I have no other choice and have to watch them to keep in touch with India. You switch to it and they are having a break. They read one news story and they have a break. They read headlines and they take a break. And every time the same nauseating repetition of calling themselves the best. For God's sake please leave the decision to the viewers. Your ratings will tell whether you are good or not.
The news coverage is quite amateurish especially the exchange between the newscaster and the reporter on site. The questions asked by newscasters to the reporters are repetetive, childish, prejudiced and full of assumptions. The replies are equally pathetic.
Technically they are the worst. The captions do not match with the news. Either they run early or late. Newsflashes overcast the caption of running programme.
Also they re-run the so-called ''LIVE'' news bulletins. You can catch them if you follow a Cricket Match or Election results, most of the times they are two to three hours behind the actual happenings.
I will jump to any other Indian Live News Channel the day I have a choice.
