News Channels Suck
I had previously posted about how I was in total agreement with how trivialization was becoming a leitmotif for the Indian mainstream television media and how The Hindu was one of the sole survivors of the en masse dumbing down that our media has subjected itself to, to cater to the moronic idiots whose viewpoints on the world seem to be myopic enough to encompass issues such as which state Amitabh Bachchan belongs to, or that Salman Khan is hosting a new reality TV show.
Grossness only.
Now, I sometimes have this habit, whenever I am not drowsy enough early in the mornings to switch on the TV to put on either (a) VH1 classics or (b) The News on some decent enough channel to see what's been happening since I saw what had been happening last.
VH1 classics plays stuff that I still listen to, making me feel ancient. I could almost have one foot of mine in the grave, judging by their estimations of what makes a 'classic'. Spaz people.
I'm playing to the gallery. I'm only being facetious.
Ergo, it is the news only. This morning, I was watching the news and my belief that having a 24 hour news channel is max pain simply because channels keep repeating news and repeating news ad nauseum was totally reinforced.
The same story about how the Golden Gate bridge had banners put up in favour of Tibet's freedom, and how the Olympic flame was put out thrice (or four times, news channels aren't certain) during the relay in Paris, and how the Chinese government was satisfied with the security arrangements in India when the torch relay happens here on 17th April (though nobody cares much about what might happen in Islamabad the day before that!) were stories I heard thrice in a span of 45 minutes.
Same stories, same sequence, same news reader. Its almost as if the news channels were taking a 20 minute news segment and running it for as long as it was possible.
Sure it works well when people are arbitly tuning in to find out more information, but for the others who crave to know more about what developments have taken place, its kinda putting off, and they switch to looking towards the almighty internet for more relevant content.
Maybe they should just put up informational alerts as and when new stuff happens, rather than bombard us with the same stuff which becomes mindless after a certain point of time.