Ashish Gorde thinks news channels haven’t travelled much since the Doordarshan days:

My complaint has been that this news channel never tackles anything serious or substantive, and instead, gives importance to news events that are of tabloid-y nature. And just as I was watching one such insignificant ‘news’ (for want of a better word) and chuckling at the serious expression on the anchor’s face that my nephew suddenly blurted out, ‘they show cartoons on this news channel.’

I burst out laughing at my nephew’s statement because, unknowingly, the youngster managed to get to the very heart of this issue. Of course, his interest was in the fact that he ‘discovered’ another channel that shows cartoons and was excited about telling me that, but I realised there was much more to what he said than just that whopeee comment.