Ripples on the brain

Times Now

While surfing channels, I have seen glimpses of this particular news channel many times. Almost always, I end up watching its Chief News Editor, Arnab Goswami (a product of Pranoy’s NDTV), either presenting news or conducting interviews (I think Rajdeep also had this problem - he was seen almost round-the-clock in the initial days of CNN-IBN. Fortunately, better sense prevailed and he no longer is seen that frequently). I don’t know who his inspiration is or from whom he learnt his news presentation skills, but I must say he’s the most irritating guy in business. As if he was not sufficient, he also has lady beside him during the prime news who probably thinks she competes with the likes of Barkha Dutt and Sagarika Ghose. I don’t understand why all these news channels irrationally promote these lady journalists when it’s so very apparent they don’t deserve the prominence they get.

Okay, so coming back to Arnab, I think he wants to appear very aggressive, like Karan Thapar, and ends up making his users run for their remote controls. When he and his partner hold these multi-party video conferences, they almost invariably have to cut short the speakers irrespective of whether they speak sense or not and have to disregard the answers that they give if they don’t toe the line of these guys.

Sample this: There was this huge news of a GoAir flight between Bangalore and New Delhi getting delayed by 16 hours or so and they had put together a handful of people - some official from the Civil Aviation, a passenger on that flight among others for this news item. Their first question was to that official who while expressing displeasure at the delay explained to them how the airline had to fly a new crew down from New Delhi due to some law. Arnab cut him short saying he was defending the airline and didn’t allow him continue further. He then asked a question to the passenger to which she answered saying the attitude of the crew and they way they behaved was unpardonable. Arnab asked her who specifically didn’t behave properly with the passengers. The passenger had no other go but to take specific examples of specific people to substantiate her point. Arnab’s co-presenter cut her short telling her naming people didn’t make sense as they were not present to defend themselves (when she was exactly answering her colleague’s question). I was like why do these people agree to be interviewed by this channel.

Jaya TV

This is actually a funny piece I heard in Jaya TV news yesterday. The presenter was mentioning about the Lunar eclipse today when she mentioned that this particular lunar eclipse was very special since it was occuring on a full moon day . Ha ha ha… In their attempt to exaggerate even the mundane events, the editors fail to check on the very basic facts.