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The advent of 24/7 News channels set in motion a race for oneupmanship and TRPs among them that led to ‘creating’news if there was none, or only ‘half a news’, available’. These Editors had never heard the saying “No news is Good News.” Embellishing and exaggerating, repetition of images and videos ad nauseam, and display of sensational visuals ( even File pictures and stories) became the order of the day. This further descended into utter chaos with the so called “TV Debates”, a euphemism for ‘Shout to be heard above all the others’ and ‘keep repeating your brief’ by the participants deputed to present their political party’s views. They have bettered ( or have become worse than) their counterparts elsewhere.
The advent of 24/7 News channels set in motion a race for oneupmanship and TRPs among them that led to ‘creating’news if there was none, or only ‘half a news’, available’. These Editors had never heard the saying “No news is Good News.” Embellishing and exaggerating, repetition of images and videos ad nauseam, and display of sensational visuals ( even File pictures and stories) became the order of the day. This further descended into utter chaos with the so called “TV Debates”, a euphemism for ‘Shout to be heard above all the others’ and ‘keep repeating your brief’ by the participants deputed to present their political party’s views. They have bettered ( or have become worse than) their counterparts elsewhere.