Easy question: What are the two most over-reported news items in Indian media in recent times?
Easy answers:
1) Shilpa Shetty's misadventure on English television. I never imagined that some websites and TV channels will follow the results of Big Brother just like they track cricket scores. Pray tell me, why on earth is this so interesting?
2) Abhishek-Aishwarya's marriage. I knew this was going to be big, but I'm still annoyed at how much newsprint and air time is getting spent on this. Every day there is either a new speculation that they are already married, or else, what they are going to wear on their wedding. Either way, this never fails to make it to headlines every single day. I wish they marry soon so that this madness ends. Also, I don't care if they wear jeans and t-shirt or even a lungi on their wedding day.
Looks like our politicians are not creating enough news to feed the newspapers and TV.
Jobless that I am, I ended up composing this verse.
ReplyDelete[Should be sung in the tune of Yankee-doodle-doodle-do!]
Shilpa Shetty goes to london
With her chicken curry
They call her paki, dog, poppodum
n' Shilpa ends up merry.
Yank-the-media out of town
Yank-the media into ground
Thrash the media once for good
And let them lay there buried.
Salman, Vivek and Abhishek
Ash is on a date-fury.
Media goes to hotels and temples
To tell us she'll marry.
Yank-the-media out of town
Yank-the media into ground
Thrash the media once for good
And let them lay there buried.!