BROKEN NEWS!

Its everywhere. Take a look at the top 4 news English news channels , the Hindi channels and even the regional channels. One thing they always have for you is BREAKING NEWS! Be it the menu in a recent bollywood wedding or the choice of clothes of a tennis star , these channels take it upon themselves to provide the public with such vital snippets which may make or break their lives.

On a serious note though it has to be admitted that these channels feel that they can no longer survive with just news. They need an entertainment quarter , a fashion zone and even reality shows. And after all this when its actually news time they don't give just news . They come up with a top story and everything else is "Breaking news" or "just in". And if they fail to do that they undergo the danger of losing out to another channel which might have just done that.

This also results in intense rivalry between these channels each of them claiming to have provided the earliest news and the most exclusive footage. The race has become so intense that one of the channels has started claiming itself to be "Refreshingly different" (No prizes for guessing which one). I just cant help but think , from when did news start becoming different?
If you thought this was awful just take a look at some of the regional news channels which somehow manage to come up with the most atrocious , obscene and biased pieces of news you will ever see. Not long ago obtaining a neutral view was not that difficult . Today it is virtually impossible . And the sad thing is that it only gets worse everyday in spite of criticism from various quarters .

This will continue unless some channel has the guts to risk it and start providing straight , unbiased and not so breaking news. Even though i feel thats just wishful thinking.