By SHRUTI RAO
“Hindi news channels are the worst in the world.”
“Hindi news channels are like the a-hole of the media, dude”.
I’m sure you’ve heard mutations of these statements and if I were to switch on my Realistic, some of you might endorse the view too. At the television news channel boom in my teenage years, I heard channels like Aaj Tak welcomed like there was a new baby in town. Everyone shook their metaphorical hands and said their congratulations. India had 24X7 news. India gave birth to a young ‘un. And here we are in 2009, a few years later, where everything (at least around me and my social circle) seems to be running desperately in a downward spiral.
So what happened between then and now? Why have we, the educated elite, forsaken the child we welcomed only years ago?
