News Channels or Crappy Channels!!

I rarely get time watch TV during the weekdays, I will be at work and during the weekends I will not be at home. But somehow last week I got to sit in front of this idiot box accidentally at my friends place. One my friends eye(who is a diet enthusiast) caught something on a popular Telugu News Channel.

There was information scrolling at the bottom of the screen saying that "Know how a popular Hindi singer lost 100 Kgs and a popular Telugu actor lost 30 kgs". At the time we saw the information, there was 2 more hours left for the program to be aired.

So my friend was doing his work for 2 hours and when it was time for the program, he got glued to the box. Me being there physically, couldn't help - I was also glued (The truth is, I though I might well get some tips to reduce weight :-)).

Finally the program starts, Just check out the sequence of events that happen on the show, below:

• As every other program in the world starts, the program also started off with a jingle playing in the background while videos and pictures of Obese people were shown.

• An anchor comes, talks about Obesity and asks us to stay glued to know how a popular Hindi singer lost 100 Kgs and a popular Telugu actor lost 30 kgs.

• Again pictures and videos of Obese people are shown with the Jingle playing in the background.

• Time For Advertisements

• Again pictures and videos of Obese people are shown with the Jingle playing in the background(Please note that everytime its the same Jingle, before /after videos & pictures).

• Anchor comes again and tells the name of the singer who lost 100 kgs in 1 year. ...BHAM..random clippings from the singers music videos are shown for 7 minutes or so.

• Again the anchor comes and tells the name of the telugu actor who lost 30 Kgs in 2 monhs...Bham Bham BHAM....for 10 minutes clippings of this actors movies and songs are shown.

• Not so fast..time for Advertisements

• Again pictures and videos of Obese people are shown with the Jingle playing in the background.

• Anchor comes again...and says do you what to see how they look after shedding their weight?.I guess you might have caught up with this...Bham Bham....shows the videos/clipping of these both guys after losing weight.

• Yet again the anchor comes and says "Do you want to know how they have reduced their weight so drastically?"

• Guys come on, not so soon. Advertisements time.

• Yet again and again pictures and videos of Obese people are shown with the Jingle playing in the background.I am reminding you again, every time its the same Jingle, before/after videos & pictures.

• Now the anchor comes says a word Liposuction and videos of the procedure (I guess mostly downloaded from net) are shown. A local doctor talks about the procedure , not much informative.

• They talk about another procedure in which they stitch the stomach to make it small so that people will eat less and thus lose weight. Some pictures related to this procedure this time and again a local doctor talks about it. As you guessed, not informative!!

• Again some crappy before/after videos and pictures.

• The program ends and again for the gods sake the Jingle comes back for the N'th time.

So, if you want you can read the sequence of events once again, go ahead. These are only the things they showed in that programme. I am sure that I have missed the jingle in the sequence here and there. I bet it came up more times than I have mentioned.

Aren't these news channels getting any quality news? Do they have nothing of quality to telecast? Why can't they telecast something which is useful for common man? Why do they keep telecasting the same news 100 times a day?!!(literally). And, why these news channels dramatize and reshoot the crime sequences and telecast? Are they some kind of training classes for would be criminals. Don't we have better things to watch?

I am sick of these news channels!!!!!!!