RE:ENGLISH MEDIA IS COMMUNAL
by Demo-crazy on Dec 27, 2007 01:16 PM
Shailaja Bajpai's review of how the TV News channels fared on Election results story - makes some interesting observations on the anchors:
Star News: The men in black, anchor Gaurav and M.J. Akbar, were on their feet throughout (to applaud the winner?). Puppet heads of Modi, Madame and Others shook from side to side for no reason. Interesting. NDTV India sat on Gujarat Ki Gaddi like it has settled in for the night. Try as Vinod Dua might to bestir the sleeping giant, it did not awaken. Channel requires a piercing wake-up call. Aaj Tak: Deepak Chaurasia and a dholak competed for who could make more noise. Deepak won. The show was almost demure without its habitual headlines-in-a-hurry style. NDTV 24x7: The old firm of Prannoy Roy, Dorab Sopariwalla, Barkha Dutt and introducing Srinivasan Jain %u2014 not quite upto it. Like an old sweater, NDTV%u2019s holes are showing, though you remain comforted by the knowledge that Roy will explain everything to you, all in good time, eventually. Times Now: Nobody has bothered to tell Arnab Goswami he is speaking into a microphone. Rahul Srivastava was far calmer, Mahesh Rangarajan a sphinx who knew things were developing, but not what was happening. CNN-IBN: Rajdeep Sardesai almost as calm as Yogendra Yadav. Together, they ransacked the proceedings, the figures looking for telltale signs of why Modi won. ---------------- I felt many of them seem to think themselves as Congress spokespersons.
