ENews

I must say TV has gotten really entertaining of late. No I don't mean the soap operas. Let me clarify, I don't refer to the drama serials. Its the news that takes the cake.
Come Cricket World cup and we had this leading channel helpfully instructing us - this you see is the Indian restaurant where some of the Indian crickets came previous night to have dinner. Yuvi/Zaheer/x/y/z the names were rattled. They had Indian food, and the 'newsman' then rattled off each dish each of our cricket had. Yuvi order butter chicken with tandoori roti , 2 in nos. 37.21 gms of it was left. He had water in a tall glass which he held in his left hand at 11:21 pm and took 2 sips exactly 3 seconds apiece. While some of this is mere creative license, the fact that a leading 'news' channel has to rattle off what each player ate the night before in a restaurant speaks volumes for the kind of stuff we pass for news.
Similarly the recently celebrated "AbhiAsh' wedding. The media was not invited but decided to camp anyways. Well one can't fault them on dedication and page 3 is a money maker. Whether the entire paper should only be page 3 is an interesting question. I'm sure page 1 and 2 will have something to say and so might page 4, interesting though it be to have a paper with only 3 sides speaking in a mathematical sense.
So there is this 'reporter' who dutifully records the interesting fact that while the media is not invited, Mr Bacchan did send some water bottle and food for the campaigning throng. But the real interesting nugget came from the News anchor in the studio. He said it is good to see common decency in place. As if not giving food and water to uninvited trespasser is the new indecency!
I wonder if there is really a demand for such over saturated people worship? But then we are a nation of 840000000 Gods. Whats another 11 or 3 Gods more?