Jul 12, 2007 05:31 PM
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(Updated Jul 16, 2007 04:38 PM)
You switch on the India TV channel & in all probability you should find some snake charmer doing something crazy with his Been or you may find few very different angled shots of some pond or some well where India TV reporter would be seriously trying to catch some non-existent ghost on their cameras. That is INDIA Tv all about today.
The Breaking News has become a joke:- with its found anchor Mr. Rajat Sharma accompanied by Sourav when bring you the much hyped breaking news at prime time, you will keep scratching you head to find any main stream news there. When this breaking news came into existence(pioneered by India TV itself), all the channels jumped into breaking news as their exclusive forte, but Indian TV gradually found a strange way & matters to name it as breaking news for the nation. Continuously for some time I can see "the ghost stories", "the haunted manisions", "snake-charmers", "man turned snake turned man" doing rounds on India TV's prime time news. It has made the word "breaking news" a joke. At most you can find these news cheaply amusing.
The sting operation saga, even the India TV founder(& his friends) pioneered sting TV operations have become strange for the channel. In fact these are not strange but disgusting at times. You can easily identify that all programmings & sting operations are doctored and can easily make out that sting-operation targets are in fact acting(and that too pathetic acting).
Only saving grace for India TV is "Aap Ki Adalat", this too looks funny at times, but still, Rajat Sharma manages to ask some really interesting questions to the celebrities brought in the Adalat.
Conclusion:- A senior journalist like Rajat Sharma anchoring a news show(at prime time and named breaking news), which keeps talking about "snake & ghost stories" is not actually funny but very very hurting for journalism.Its high time that Mr. Sharma to get up and live up to the name he had made and at least bring some grace to journalism and to the name called "India". Or else he should change the name to "wild imagination TV".