Fishes and crabs in Arabian Sea have complained of breathlessness and chaos as dozens of television reporters spilled into sea waters, allegedly to report the aftermath of the collision between two merchant ships MSC Chitra and Khalijia, which caused an oil spill off the Mumbai harbor. Already shocked by the sudden spill of oil and chemicals into their habitat, the marine animals were finding it tough to cope with the additional influx of reporters.
August 9, 2010 | Filed under
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After having the last laugh on the Indian Television, Rahul Mahajan, the child of destiny, is finally set to leave his mark in the pages of history and science together. Believe it or not, he has been chosen as the first human being to be cloned by the scientists. The cloned Mahajan would be delivered to India in September 2010 by the Roslin Institute of Scotland.
July 31, 2010 | Filed under
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Hours after Supreme Court quashed all cases against her for her views and comments over pre-marital sex, journalists have expressed keen interest in knowing Tamil actresses Kushboo Sundar’s views on post-marital sex. Senior editors, especially those sitting in New Delhi, have asked their reporters to get in touch with the actress and carry out “exclusive” interviews to extract some of her “controversial” views on post-marital sex.
April 29, 2010 | Filed under
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Approximately 72 hours after the discovery of a definitive cure for all forms of cancer, Dr Hari Kumar, Associate Professor of Biotechnology at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), is still waiting for the mainstream media to broadcast the story. So far, none of the TV channels or newspapers have gotten around to reporting this completely non-controversial and quite bland news item, sources report.
April 26, 2010 | Filed under
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Leading English television news channel Times Now has finally conceded that it might have asked just too many questions in the last few years. A bulk of these questions were asked on the channel’s prime time news show The Newshour, while many others kept popping up round the clock as various news and events unfolded. According to an estimate, around 702854 questions might have been asked since the trend started on the channel.
February 17, 2010 | Filed under
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A consortium of supernatural creatures has voted Indian news channel India TV as the best news channel of the last decade. The winner was chosen after thousands of bhoot (ghosts), pishaach (devils), djinn (genies), him-maanav (yetis), taantrik (black-magicians), chudail (vamps), daayan (witches), etc. took part in an occult poll conducted by Faking News. Only Hindi news channels were selected for voting by the consortium in the first round.
December 30, 2009 | Filed under
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With about a dozen pictures of women in skimpy clothes and sexy poses on the desk, a group of young and dynamic journalists debated over an hour the various news stories that could accompany the pictures for tomorrow’s edition of Hilly Times. The debate was still on till the reports last came in, but the group of journalists had shortlisted three possible news stories for the final decision.
December 2, 2009 | Filed under
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The whole nation was shell-shocked when Amar Sabbhulkar, a 26-year-old unemployed youth, forgot that it was first anniversary of the Mumbai terror attacks on Thursday. This despite the fact that all the news channels of India were relentlessly trying to remind everyone that Mumbai was attacked and hundreds of innocent people were killed exactly a year back. Amar’s atrocious amnesia came to the fore when he appeared live on ABS News.
November 26, 2009 | Filed under
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Fourteen year old Tinku Ramesh Pundit, a local boy slated to appear at board exams next year, was heartbroken when he found out that his favorite newsreader was actually an asshole. Tinku discovered this disturbing fact when he was invited to a television studio discussion panel by ABS News. The panel discussion was being anchored by Sakar Sharma, the hitherto loved and respected television personality for Tinku.
September 21, 2009 | Filed under
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A national television news channel of India was duped by a conman, who promised to provide ‘sizzling and hot’ video of Bollywood stars Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif to them. The channel had paid the conman ninety seven lakh rupees for the promised video before the trickster did the vanishing act. The incident was unearthed by our investigative journalism team after the channel lodged a police complaint against the unidentified conman.
September 6, 2009 | Filed under
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