I have been thinking of writing about this topic for so long but I was not getting proper base to write it. For quite sometime, everyone might have noticed non-news stuff being shown on the news channels…or say the news channels starving for higher TRP ratings. Whether it is a bad attempt to show “Indian Idol” contestants or a successful attempt to show “Bunty aur Babli” on news channel…Whether it is hidden footage on Tihar Jail or it is about special coverage on Mumbai rains…

Special coverage / shows help us with the information and specially the facts but news channels are using this tool to earn money rather than providing more information. Now, earning money is not at all wrong but the way these guys are approaching to earn money is not quite good.

Take today’s example, at 8 PM Aaj Tak was showing special show called Godfather showing Indian film stars and singers at Dawood’s party..(His brother’s party), the show was very good but they managed to stretch it for 2 hours…from beginning they were kept on repeating Bollywood’s biggest star of that time will be shown in the clip after this short break…but they showed it in the end i.e. approx 15 minutes before the show ended.

They were showing same things many times and just stretching the show with the help of ads and showing things which were not related…

Other example would be, some news channel promoting movie Bunty aur Babli, showing both the stars reading news and all…

These kind of things always make me think that, is there any good news channel around with more of news content then more of TRP increase attempts?