Journalists don't have a heart.

Today, I witnessed one of the many accidents that take place on highways. (I didn't have the heart to take snaps) There was this mentally retarded person, who was trying to cross the Western Express highway. I saw him trip over and collapse right in the middle of the highway lane. At this point, I just HOPED that he would come out safe. (There was nothing that could be done, as there were many speeding vehicles)

Hardly 2-3 seconds after the man collapsed, a bike ran over him. :(
This came as a big blow to my head. The guy on the bike also crashed. But he wasn't hurt. (He was wearing a helmet). He was thrown off by some distance, but came out unhurt.

I felt a cold chill when I noticed that the person who was run over, the mentally retarded person, wasn't moving. I know things like these happen all the time, but witnessing THAT started me thinking.

I had a camera in my bag. I could have taken it out and snapped a few photographs, maybe take a video of the entire scene. But something told me NOT to. It was a devastating sight. Something horrible had happened, and the poor victim needed help. Many cars stopped, people ran towards the person, grabbed and lifted him to the side of the road. He couldn't walk, or do ANYTHING. They set him on the side pavement, made him sit. But as soon as they let go of the support, he collapsed onto the pavement, rolling and curling within himself. Then two people put him in an auto rickshaw, and took him to the hospital for medical aid.

Two things strike out here...

1. If there's one thing that I have learned from this incident is that Mumbai is a city where religion, caste or the mother tongue of an individual doesn't matter. If a person injures himself badly, or if an old lady trips over a footpath, everybody comes running up to help them. They don't come up to you and ask whether you are a Hindu, a Muslim, or even Gujarati or Marathi for that matter.. (Heads Up MNS, Shiv Sena)

2. If there was a journalist there at the scene, what would he/she have done? "Take out the goddamn camera, we gotta shoot this! I've got some juicy content!"
Most of the people reporting DON'T have a heart. Sometimes I feel they're just plain dumb.


An example of Heartless journalism goes like this:

Take for example the Sarabjit case. This Indian guy is in jail in Pakistan, and is most probably gonna be hanged. A journalist goes to his residence in Punjab, India. What is the first question he asks his mother?

"Aapko kaisa lag raha hai?" ("How do you feel that your son is being executed?")
I mean, what do you f**king say to that?

An example of dumb journalism goes like this:

They covered the 26/11 at the Taj Hotel.
A very famous English news channel reporter just got hold of a Chinese chef, who had just escaped/been rescued from the hotel. What did he ask him?

"How do you feel? Are you scared?"
What answer did the guy expect? NO?
The chef is trying to go as far from the place as possible, and the "reporter" holds him up, and asks him THAT.

Why I'm saying this is that, again, Indian journalism has hit its utmost low point. I don't think it can sink ANY lower.

When I switch on the TV to ANY Hindi news channel, all I see is crappy news. I have posted several blogs on this, with pictures. Now when I see these sad "News stories" being reported, I don't even feel like taking snaps. At first it was real fun taking snaps of the awesome crap they showed us on news. I have a thousand images still to be posted.

News NOW comprises of:

1. "Television Serial" news - 15-20 minutes dedicated to each TV show. Starting from Balika Vadhu, to many others.

2. "Food Scam" news - Are YOU drinking bad MILK?, eating bad JAGGERY?

3. "Mythical" news - ALL myths WILL be projected as reality in this section. This section dominates all other sections. This type of news can be anything..from "Hell on Earth" and "River of the living dead" to "End of the earth in 2012" and even "Mysterious Waterfall".. I even have pics of ALL these to prove all of this, AND MORE!

4. "Sports" news - If India wins, they are hardworking, awesome gods. If India lose, they're f**king worse than the US cricket team, and they spend more time making Ads.

5. "Breaking" news - The four points mentioned above are a part of this section.

Man, I could go on. But I don't want to bore you :) (I know I already have :P)

Indian media’s take on Michael Jackson’s death.

By the Indian media, I basically mean the hindi news channels. I hate them :D.

I can have a go at them in the middle of the night, or even at gunpoint.

When a really, really famous celebrity passes away, there’s always a big commotion, with emotions flying all around. The death of Michael Jackson came as a shock to millions around the globe. It was tragic. Every speech that was delivered in the memorial gave everyone Goosebumps.

When MJ passed away, the news channels in India were caught napping, as they had NO clips on him, except for some footage of when he came to India.

What to do in this situation? The sensible way out would be to show clippings from his music videos, and report the career achievements, etc.

But NO, India TV came up with the single-most AWESOMEST idea EVER [Pardon my sarcasm :P].

They compares Michael Jackson to, get this, GOVINDA’s [should be kicked out of India] dance FIRST. Then they compared his dance to Jitendra [No comments]. Then came Hrithik Roshan [Bearable!], and in the end they gave Prabhu Deva some footage [Should have been the first, and the only one].

First of all, it is an insult to MJ to be compared to Govinda, or ANY other dancer from India (excepting a few). What a disgrace. Sadly, I don’t have snaps! :(

Enter next day, I switched on my television, more importantly, India TV :D

They were blabbering about the post mortem that was done on MJs body, and claimed to have the results =))

Note that MJs own FAMILY didn’t get any reports.

The making of a prime time television show @ India TV requires the following:

1] A dummy skeleton.

2] A rubber mask that is supposed to look like MJ.

3] An “expert” that will explain everything to the illiterate viewer.

4] Lies. [This is the most important part]

The headline reads: “Who broke MJs nose?”

I told you. They can go to the depths of humiliation to prove their “point”.

Skeleton, rubber mask, and the “expert” holding the mask. Unfortunately, I do not have audio, else I would have included the “Lies” part also! [Note that my TV is muted :)]

The headline reads: “MJs nose disappears”

Headline: “Where did MJs nose go?”

Please stop laughing =)) There was another headline that read, “Who stole MJs nose?”. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get a snap of that!

The caption on the picture reads: “Nose disappears”.

All this is just a part of the post mortem report. :D

Then came the memorial. They showed the entire proceedings well, with less breaks in between, showing some respect. Or maybe just TRPs!

A day after MJs memorial, they came up with some more “Breaking” news. “Breaking News” rocks!

From this news report that they aired, I came to know that these Hindi News channels know that they show CRAPPY news, and they know people aren’t stupid to buy it.

I know it because, the news anchor standing and delivering news was saying, “Ye hamare news channel ki news report nahi hai, ye news Antarashtriya news channels bhi bata rahe hain” [This news report is not made up by our network, but news channels across the US are reporting it].

This time, it was about MJs memorial, and the fact that his body was not in the coffin during that period.

Big deal!

Headline reads: “Where DID MJs dead body go?”

They sensationalize EVERYTHING.

Look at their animation. Hilarious.

1] Coffin with body.

As you can see, the news anchor is pointing his hand towards the “amazing” animation of the dead body in the coffin, alerting the “illiterate” viewer what the picture shows. [We know what a body in a coffin looks like dummy :@]

2] Coffin without body.

OMG It’s GONE! Shit! Crap! The animation looks SOOOO real! Damn!

:(

The pictures below show how the media thinks we are fools. I love the pointy arrow thingy!

The caption reads: "MJs coffin". [Sheet! I thought it was a n alien, hidden beneath a bed or roses, and escorted by the FBI!]

Look! The coffin IS the car!

Someone should step up to revive Indian media. Someone should start a movement. I say “someone” because I don’t want it to stop :P.

I have snapped like a million pictures from different news channels. At first I thought that I’ll blog about all of them! But there are so many! I get bored :(

The whole point of this post is nothing :P

I just feel SAD for all the people who actually BELIEVE all the crap that these news channels show!

Spreading urban legends, even trying to prove them true.

Crappy news is followed by more crappy news. It just WON’T end.

Swami Ramdev is going to court to protest against Section 377. Dude, grow up. There are more important things in life. Fight against the “andha-vishwas” that these channels spread. Throwing babies, walking all over them, will NOT cure them. It will kill them. A girl married to a dog isn’t news. Female feticide, sati, dowry still exist in society. Report them! Alert people! Let them know!

The only hindi news channel that seems to make sense is DD News. [Not sarcastic]. Please correct me if I’m wrong :).