Gulzar Natarajan opines that television weakens our ability ‘to see things in perspective’:

However, having seen numerous such programs on issues varying from politics to social issues, business to science, and arts to sports, I have often been left wondering, “where is the beef?” . This uncanny knack of invariably overlooking or missing the substance is one of the chief characteristics of modern day television news reporting. Any event is immediately characterised as the greatest, worst, defining point, or water-shed or in some other superlative. However this superlative remains only till the next event happens.

Gulzar N is a civil servant in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, and a welcome addition to the limited list of babus in the Indian blogworld, in my view.