New Farce

They were 2-3 in number in the early nineties, became 5-10 in the later decade and today they are almost 20. They all defy the purpose they are there for. Just because they claim to haunt us for 24 hours, they add spice on any damn occurence and qualify it for telecasting. By now, you must have guessed I am referring to none other than the news channels appearing at the rate of atleast 1 in every 4 channels.
They are there not because there is something new happening somewhere sometime, but because they have to stand by their sick claim of being eternally present. Its an insult to call it 'news', because it is hackneyed by telecasting 'n' times with the same short video clips. Instead of slinking off when the reality is over, they make money even when there is no occurence. They literally make 'news'. For example, they can compare SRK and BigB desultorily without reaching any conclusion, and by showing the same age old video clippings repetitively, keep the audience intact. They are able to find relationships in people who themselves don't know if they have ever met! In August 2006, they just made an issue about Jia Khan being Aamir Khan's sister. Don't be shocked, because I guess even Aamir himself must have been left astound. The crux here was that Aamir's father had an extra marital affair with Jia's mom. To be on the safe side, this was only raised as a question and was never confirmed. Bottomline is -"They brought something on air atleast for 1 hour, which could pass their time". Similarly, cricket stars also help very much in filling the otherwise empty slots. If there is a love affair of celebrities, then for the media it is a dream come true, because they can easily pass about 5 hours by showing the event after every 1 hour interval. They must have made a seperate section made into a dummy temple to sit and pray day long for such affairs to take place or atleast for any 2 unrelated people to pose intimately for a photograph. These days every news is a 'Breaking News', maybe for us to bang and break our heads against a wall after being taken aback on realizing that this content has qualified for such a title. In a remote village in Haryana, a baby's fall into a bore-well is the whole nation's concern. Whole nation has to know right at that moment that Hrithik Roshan pays a tax of 16 crores, or else they cannot go to the loo. Recently, Raju Shrivastav and Rakhi Sawant appear on a show on Aaj Tak's Tez and in other channels laughter shows are telecasted. I dont know on what basis are they so important to be a part of a news channel.
Their job is of a kind that can make them earn forever since everyday Mallika's dress will keep reducing, a zoo animal in some remote part may wear clothes, an animal may be nicknamed with a human name, every celebrity is going to dine somewhere, a lover couple will elope from their houses, unknown people are going to have extra-marital affairs, a husband will beat his wife on the road or vice-versa, students will copy in the board exams, and finally the Indian population is big enough to respond to the silly polls after hearing about the unachievable prizes and moolah at stake.