May 28, 2007

Such shoddy reporting!

Not so long ago, we South Indians were peeved at the lack of air time given to news from the South in the news channels based out of Delhi. While I think that was mostly justified given that even worst cyclones in the Bay of Bengal never used to even find a mention in the Weather Reports of Pranoy Roy’s new channel (when he was with Star TV), I don’t think we are any better today.

Look at the this news about the death of Maniratnam’s brother, for example:

He (Srinivasan) was 49 and is survived by his wife Sandhya and three daughters — Shreya (18) and twins Divya and Akshya (15).
Sandhya is the sister of renowned film producer G Venkateswaran, who had committed suicide a couple of years ago.

GV’s brother Srinivasan’s wife Sandhya is GV’s sister? I mean, this cannot happen even in a K.Balachander’s movie. It’s sad that people at CNN IBN do not even have this much basic information about Tamil Nadu, its politics, movie folks etc. Moreover, this is not the first time it has happened. When the Dinakaran controversy was at its peak, CNN IBN started its prime time news by saying that Stalin was elder to Azhagiri.

With such factual errors in their reporting, I think these Delhi-based news channels should be banned from reporting South Indian news.

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  1. Hi Karthik,

    While I agree that such factual errors are completely unacceptable be it by a channel based anywhere in India and telecasting to any other part of our nation.

    But your suggestion that the channel should be banned doesnt make too much sense, to me atleast. If informed viewers in South India take exception to the poor quality of reporting and stop watching the channel, one of the two things will happen.. the channel bosses will feel the heat with falling TRPs and spruce up their act or they will shut shop and go (something u want to FORCE in a democracy)

    So my simple suggestion is let market forces do the needfull .. it is always more effective that way..

    :)
    aakash

    Comment by Aakash Shah — May 29, 2007 @ 9:43:09 PM

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