The current mess of television journalism in India is often blamed upon "the mad TRP race" i.e. the race to show sensational and senseless stuff in name of news just to attract 'eyeballs' i.e. attention of common men and hence their viewership, which translates into high TRP numbers and business profitability. So is this 'business' of achieving high TRPs against the 'business' of journalism?

Historically news organizations have been running the business of ‘printing and publishing’. The modern journalism is supposed to have started with the Gutenberg press in the fifteenth…

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