In my mother’s place, where I’m currently parked, her care givers monopolise the TV. Which is fine as they are the ones who are, there all the time, and since my mother can’t watch TV anymore, the caregivers are the ones making the choice of channels to watch.
The male caregivers want to watch news, mainly the Hindi news channels. I kind of find the channels a pain, their predominant tone of voice is shrill and their attitudes strident. Let me explain this a bit- there have to be more ‘tones’ in narrating news than ‘shrill’ and desperately urgent. It makes everything high-octane and results in you, the audience, eventually, not being able to distinguish between what is relevant and important and what is not. In the age of instant communications, this ability to ‘sort’ or prioritise the news for an audience is what a news channel or news source has to offer. Then you can decide for yourself whether to trust the news source or not. But out here, it appears that they’re all in the same mode! It’s the classic syndrome of more of the same.
And the talk shows, which seem to dominate the non-news programming, it sort of degenerates into shouting at each other within a few minutes, with the anchor/ presenter as a part of the whole thing. Its in the questions asked and the manner in which they are asked- its like they all know the issues are the same, so how do we present them in a manner so as to catch your attention.
More on this soon, have to log off for now.
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