NEWS CHANNELS

My day never comes to a close without surfing through all the news channels. I friendly neighborhood cable operator provides me with

• BBC
• NDTV (24X7,HINDU AND PROFIT)
• CNN IBN
• NEWS X
• TIMES NOW
• HEADLINES TODAY

With so many channels you might think that the person who watches must get a very clear picture of all the world happenings but sadly here is where we are mistaken. These news channels with the exception of BBC are only interested in exclusivity, first to report and sensationalism...they are not bothered about the correctness of their report as most of their news flashes says "SOURCES:xyz", they never come out open with what they mean by these so called sources. One very nice example this is the Finance Minister posting lottery, each channel threw up a name and said that as per their sources this person is the confirmed FM. Of the channels i have listed Times now and Headlines today are the worst, they are least interested in reporting the correct news all they want is to attract eye balls, they have so much of masala packed into their news it's more like a bollywood pot boiler. Take for instance SRK and Salman allegedly had a spat, these guys have their picture on either side of the screen with a lightning effect in between, aren't there any other more important news to be reported?
But all is not lost there some very good programs that are really a treat to watch like

• CLICK, FAST TRACK, ETHICAL MAN ...(BBC)
• GADGET GURU, CELL GURU, NEWSNET 2.0(has little masala), CNB ...(NDTV 24X7)

But my kind request to these channels is please don't waste your air time do something useful and not wasteful. Here i would like to have a special mention about the Ethical man program and Greenathon event, these two served real good purpose of making the lay man understand what is pollution basically, how he goes about doing it and what are the ways in which one can reduce his/her footprint. As i am a part of Green IT i was able to appreciate even the small nuances of the show too.
I personally rate NDTV and CNN-IBN as the two best indian news challes that i have seen so far. People like Rajdeep Sardesai, Pranoi Roy, Bharka Dutt, Karan Thapar really add a lot of value to the Indian media.My final request to all news channels is report the news as they happen without any masala