I have been spending the last month idling away at home watching a lot of movies on my laptop. Consequently my weight has also boomed up a notch, which is saying something as people who know me would understand. However, this blog post is about something which hit me hard in the meantime.
The few minutes everyday I spend on the dining table with my family are filled with the misfortune of watching the television channels. Completely rubbish, thats what they have become. Even news channels, who are expected to report happenings at face value, pass the events through a filter and render them completely useless. In fact, the inspiration to this blog post is actually the news on solar eclipse supposed to happen today (1st August 2008). All I wanted to know are the basic facts - what %ge of eclipse, when and where. Even after a complete hour of news watching, flipping through countless channels, I was unable to get them. Come on, isn't that what one wants to know abt an eclipse? Apparently not. What we are actually supposed to know are the astrological implications of the eclipse on our lives, how we are not supposed to eat in that time and why we should take a bath after stepping outside.
Apart from the useless crap they make out of the useful news, what they show most of the time is more useless crap. News about which television stars are going to which star's party, how and why judges are fighting in some stupid reality show and what happened at the soap on TV last night.
Can one say that the news channels are at fault? I wouldn't say so. All they are trying to do is to earn more money by broadcasting what the majority of Indian population is expected to see. The blame is on us. Its not too late to rectify our television habits, and start watching something sane and sensible. Else, our world may turn into something as portrayed by the movie "Idiocracy" - the average IQ of the world going drastically low in 500 years time.
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