‘AAP Ka Channel’: Like NaMo TV, this could be launched for Arvind Kejriwal immediately and continue until the 2020 Delhi assembly election - he’d love that.
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Viewers can switch from one channel to the other for their daily dose of ‘ tu tu main main’, thereby allowing other news channels to report the news.Īlso read: Democracy without free press is like a blank piece of paper: Ex-President Pranab MukherjeeĪlphabet channel: This could be for JD(U), AIADMK, BJD, TMC, NCP, DMK, CPI, Shiv Sena and all the other regional political parties that never get a look in on the prime-time debates - JD(U)’s Pavan K. Varma and TMC’s Chandan Mitra notwithstanding.
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To counter this, the Congress could launch RaGa TV starring Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi. The channel could also feature their speeches. Actor Akshay Kumar could then interview PM Modi and his other half - Home Minister Amit Shah - on a new weekly version of ‘Mann Ki Baat’. It could also merge with the erstwhile NaMo TV (remember that election stunt pulled by the BJP?). Else, simply hand over its infrastructure to the Asian News International (ANI), the news agency that has already become the Narendra Modi government’s official news channel. And then there are the Poonawallas, Tehseen and Shehzad, who have made themselves at home in every Delhi news studio - from Aaj Tak to Times Now.ĭoordarshan : like the national carrier Air India, DD ought to be sold to anyone who will buy it. No Ravish Kumar monologues on ‘ godi media’ (NDTV India) or Navika Kumar on ‘Lutyens’ Delhi’ (Times Now).Īnd while we’re asking, could news channels please locate a few new panelists, too? The BJP’s national spokesperson Sambit Patra has to stop the ‘Great Indian Studio Trick’, which consists of appearing in five different news studios at the same time.Īs for RSS thinker and lawyer Desh Ratan Nigam and advocate Vivek Reddy, when they fill out their National Population Register (NPR) forms, they will likely identify NDTV’s Delhi office as their permanent residence. No classroom lecture from Sudhir Chaudhary on the ‘tukde tukde’ gang’s latest perfidies (Zee News) or a ‘Reality Check’ from Sreenivasan Jain on the BJP’s most recent duplicities (NDTV 24×7). May we have debates where the anchors ask questions and let others do the answering? Occasionally, they raise their raise hand to speak like we did in the school room - the anchor chooses to either let them talk or simply ignores them.Īlso read: Karnataka sets up 24×7 control rooms to monitor TV channels
(Please listen to last Sunday’s debate and you’ll understand).Ĭurrently, all Indian news anchors behave like the chief guest on their own shows: they deliver the main address (aka sermon), and panelists listen meekly and impassively.
Not like the likes of Republic TV’s Arnab Goswami: as panelists watch, he shouts “everyone quiet” before pronouncing lengthy judgments on the CAA and the NRC and the “dirty lies” of the Congress he interrupts panelists the second they begin to speak and allows then allows them to shout simultaneously so that they all sound incomprehensible. If we absolutely must have prime time debates - many news anchors would be jobless otherwise and may raise the already alarming unemployment rate - then can we have debates of the kind we watch on Mirror Now, ET Now’s ‘India Development Debate’ or NDTV 24×7’s ‘The Big Fight’ – debates where each panelist is given sufficient time to voice an opinion before yielding the microphone to another person? So why can’t Indian news channels do it? Why can’t they just broadcast hourly bulletins of news about events and developments across the country and the world, like they used to do a decade ago? Just some good old-fashioned ground reporting by local and state correspondents who know the lay of the land?Īlso read: Guess what Times Now and Republic TV, often carrying identical content, finally disagreed on What would the news channels telecast, instead?Įr, the news, maybe? BBC does it CNN International does it too. Imagine no news anchors (sing this to the tune of John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’): bye-bye Anjana Om Kashyap, Rubika Liyaquat, Sudhir Chaudhary, Rajat Sharma, Rohit Sardana, Ravish Kumar, Amish Devgn, Sreenivasan Jain, Nidhi Razdan, Rahul Shivshankar, Navika Kumar, Rajdeep Sardesai, Gaurav C. Sawant, Zakka Jacob, Bhupendra Chaubey, Arnab Goswami and Arnab Goswami… If that’s too radical a detox for TV addicts, how about we just ban prime time news debates? Isn’t that a genius idea? Imagine an evening without TV news anchors who endlessly talk and never run out of words?