The Price of Entertainment

So you've been watching a 20 second clip of two MP's fighting against each other on TV? You think what they're doing is "ethical"? Feel like debating about it?

Obviously, its not decent but do we need to waste an entire day on how they fought? That's what most News Channels do. They put the same clip on repeat. And they put a red ring to focus on the "center of action". Its just mockery. This is what the news channels actual mean by that red ring "Our audience is too dumb to figure out what's happening in a video clip. Lets POINT IT OUT to them."

Notice the Red Ring of Attraction

It kind of shocked me that News channels could show that clip continuously for more than an hour. It's the same methodolgy with any piece of news. 

Step 1:
Take a very sensational piece of news. If there's a small video clip, even better! 
Step 2:
Decide how many times to repeat that clip.
Step 3:
Boom boom boom! Bombarded viewers continuously with some background commentry. "Ab aap dekhiye KAISE do MP Parliment mein jhagadte hai!"
Job done.

I always wonder why the TV channels even spends time on such useless bits of information when there are many more serious issues to deal with.

There's another useless activity these News Channels perform. Showing whats going on in other entertainment channels. 

For example: One news channel gives a summary of whats happening in the latest episode of some Saas-Bahu-Bandhan Shit. That's news apparently. Very sensational too!

If you notice the trend, these news channels thrive on showing the same thing again and again. It really drives me mad!

I'm perfectly sure that there are more definite and better ways of pointing the point across. It just shows their lack of quality. Check out this link below and you'll know what I'm talking about.

http://stupidindiatv.blogspot.in/2008/09/india-tv-should-be-banned.html

Here's a screen shot of what India TV likes to show as news.

BREAKING NEWS BREAKING NEWS!!!

What's the bloody point?

Alright lets behave in a civilized way for a while and put all this aside. Let's move on to something else. Something very important. 

We have finally come to know that somewhere in a place called Khandwa villagers are protesting in neck deep water. They just want the government to reduce the level of the Narmada River Dam.

It took 10 days for the news channels to put this on air. 

For 10 days villagers stood in neck-deep water, so that the government would take notice.

I never expected this from news channels. They will make outrageous claims that their network is always first and latest in bringing news to the table. So what happened? The network people didnt have resources to send a team to Khandwa? I'm not going to believe that because they seem to be having resources to bring some unknown down-on-luck astrologer to predict the end of the world. 

Welcome to the Astrology show!

Here's what happens when news channels don't bring sensible news on time. A sad situation which could've been resolved faster.

The feet of a protestor are displayed as other stand in water during the ‘Jal Satyagraha’ or ‘insistence on truth by water’ at Ghogal village in Khandwa area, Madhya Pradesh, Friday. The protesters have been in water since Aug. 25 and are demanding compensation and rehabilitation for villagers whose homes will be submerged under water after opening the gates of the Omkareshwar dam in the state because of rise in water levels of the Narmada River (AP Photo).

TV show ramble

I was watching this show "Jhalak Dikh laaja" on Colors Channel today. No I don't follow that show! But I was forced to because I was sitting in the hall where the ladies of the house watch TV. 

Yes I could've shifted to the next room. But I'm too lazy. 

So I was watching this show and my brain was begging me to run away! The show was oozing with lousiness!! It was plain LOUSY!! What the hell was I watching??  But still, I was hypnotized! All the staged drama and jokes! Man they were good at capturing the audience attention.

So these are the conclusions I've made after watching this one show. Obviously it means I have a biased opinion. But this is my blog and I do as I wish.
So conclusions:
Not a single one of these shows can go on without one of the "star" participants getting injured and we get to see a sob-story flashback of how they recovered and fought back to dance on the show just in time. Well that's all good.

But then I saw something that totally pissed me off- One lady was so seriously injured that she couldn't dance. She begged the judges to forgive her and let her replacement do the dance. The replacement is an insanely awesome dancer, so obviously it was an awesome performance. Add the lady's arm injury and you have a perfect recipe for sympathy-votes.

That is insane! You don't dance you don't get votes madam. No excuses. We have to be fair. You simply can't win sympathy votes.

Sometimes I feel all this is just staged. What if the lady was faking it? Maybe she didn't practice at all and this injury was just a big cover up. It can happen.

Frankly, I detest all Hindi TV dance shows and even the game shows. Look at what happened to Kaun Banega Crorepati?? Those questions were horrible! The quality on such a respected show has sunk to such low levels that it's asking questions from Hindi soaps. I think that has to be the rick-bottom point of any game show.

I guess it's my fault. Its been a month since I've watched TV and I think I've missed out on a lot of "trends".

But I'm happy about it and I've decided not to watch TV anymore.

Weighty Issues on the back of my mind

I recently got my BMI checked. It said I was walking a tight rope. If I gained a little more weight then I would be obese. Obviously I can't grow taller.

So I decided to take a few drastic steps. From that day I have stopped using the elevator and taking the stairway. That reminds me of this song "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin. 

Its a great song! One of my very favorites. There are lot of strange facts about this song. Check out this page below to find out. Because I have better things to write. :-P

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=328

Ok now coming back to the point. I think taking the stairs really didn't help me much. So to compensate for that feeling I decided to play some ping-pong. Now that's a great energy burning sport. And people think it's a very childish game. Its pretty tough I assure you.