Eye on South

With the number of proliferating 24 hr news channels, this was bound to happen. I mean the channels are so starved of news that they are all playing the game of 'i-can-do-better-than-you-with-exclusives' part.

Yesterday was the first time I caught CNN-IBN with its new avatar of focusing on the South. Suddenly all the news channels have woken up to the fact that more than 60% of the English speaking population in India lives in the South and they might want to address issues relevant here also.

I didnt realize all this when I saw NDTV with its show on Chennai's fitness fanatics (for nearly 30 mins) sometime last week or so. Man, these guys really know the South.....now with IBN also talking about it, this is really taking shape.

The sad fact is that none of the national channels have really any 'real' capability in finding the right stories from the south. But I must appreciate IBN for at least asking the question.

There was this lady guest on the show(i forget her name). She made an interesting comment saying that it doesnt matter where you are geographically located, you are just not capable of quality reporting from the south as of now and that this has always been the case even when DD was the prime channel. Hmmm... sad but true...

This blog is quite aan interesting view on the news channel wars.

Let's see how the 'Eye on Bangalore' series goes on in IBN for the rest of the week. I mean, dont people have anything to say about Bangalore other than the bad roads, crumbling infrastructure and the Metro. Hey, talk about the green parks...talk about the cosmopolitian nature of Bangalore....talk about weekend getaways....talk about expats in the city....talk about anything but roads...we all now know what road is bad....i am sure this city still has a lot of good things going for it....