Times of India will publish its last edition this Friday after it was shaken by a scandal where its journalists failed to find a suitable photo showing cleavage of a woman to accompany a news report. The ability to find photos of women with endowed curves is one of the prerequisites of working with ToI, and the organization saw no future for itself if its employees lost this competitive edge.
July 10, 2011 | Filed under
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A journalist with CNN-IBN accidentally landed at Irom Sharmila’s fast after mistaking her for Sharmila Tagore, much to the embarrassment of journalists, activists and citizens at large. Irom Sharmila, who has been fasting for 10 years against the AFSPA powers act in Manipur, said she was happy with mainstream media’s new found attention towards issues of the North East but wished things were a bit organized.
June 12, 2011 | Filed under
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If you ever wondered if Arnab Goswami steadily moves closer to the camera in excitement or wanted to know how far are Suhel Seth’s hands from his double chin when he makes a point, you might not have to wait any longer. Your channel Times Now is all set to become India’s first 3D news channel, where you can have three dimensional viewpoints of everything, not only the issues being discussed.
May 7, 2011 | Filed under
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An exotic belly dancer, who knows how to say “Namaste” with folded hands, has claimed to be the elusive Indian connection to the British Royal Wedding. Katrina, a self-proclaimed third generation Indian, has thus demanded attention and exclusive coverage by the Indian media for her “achievement”. Earlier, Indian media was successful in tracing an Indian connection with the royal wedding to a multi-tiered baked cake.
April 29, 2011 | Filed under
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Shit scared after making shit-scary news reports about the world ending in 2012, at least three India TV journalists committed suicide in their office early today. Experts predict that fear psychosis could soon engulf the whole news channel, as well as other Hindi news channels of India, and we could see more mass suicides by television journalists in the coming days.
March 14, 2011 | Filed under
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Leading Hindi news channel India TV today beat its closest competitor Aaj Tak by three Rakhi Sawants in the opening match of ICC World Cup 2011. This is being seen as a major setback to Aaj Tak, which was looking to upset India TV and dethrone it from its long held top position. The defeat comes on heels of Aaj Tak having changed its captain earlier.
February 19, 2011 | Filed under
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Leading Hindi news channel India TV has bought a psychic donkey that would predict outcomes of cricket matches by back-kicking footballs representing the contesting teams in a match. The donkey, apparently named Chunky by its former owner, would be branded as “Chunky, the Shy-Kick Donkey” and is expected to be a major TRP grosser for the news channel during the upcoming World Cup and IPL tournaments.
February 9, 2011 | Filed under
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After the runaway success of Sheela and Munni in blazing the TRP charts for them, the news channels of India have signed a deal with Bollywood for ensuring an uninterrupted supply of item songs across the year. The channels would use these songs and various pieces of information related or unrelated to them to produce news, preferably breaking news, and show them round the clock.
December 15, 2010 | Filed under
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With Twitter in India abuzz with news about Radia tapes leaks (not on WikiLeaks) and Barkha Dutt becoming the center of that controversy, the micro-blogging site has decided not to lose this opportunity and go for the kill in India. Twitter has voluntarily offered a 1% stake to Barkha Dutt for keeping the controversy alive and raising similar “issues” in future.
December 1, 2010 | Filed under
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Arnab Goswami, the editor-in-chief of Times Now has got his throat and neck insured for a whopping 50 crore rupees, making him the Indian with the costliest assets. Earlier John Abraham, the Bollywood actor had failed to get his bums insured for half of the price Arnab could negotiate for himself with Bank Now, a start-up financial services company that has insured Arnab’s vital organs.
November 18, 2010 | Filed under
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