Sunday, November 26, 2006

Why AajTak sucks

1. It shows more ads than news. On top of it, the quality of its ads (Pataka 502 tea, Lux Cozi undershirts, Kamdhenu TMT bars etc is downright pathetic, to say the least).

2. It repeats its content so often, that it hurts.

3. Today it covered Amitabh/Amar Singh/Abhishek/Aishwarya visit to Varanasi for a full 3 hours. It was mighty painful - India had lost just hours ago to SA, and I wanted to get a detailed coverage on that. Instead, all AajTak was showing interviews with Pandits, and its own speculations on who looked happy, who looked coy, and whatever that implied. Damned. Why don't you call yourself Aaj Tak Tabloid TV. And you kept covering that for 3 hours. Hell, had all of India been watching the TV at that time, you'd have wasted 3 billion hours of people's time.

4. Prabhu Chawla sucks big time in "Seedhi Baat". Instead of sounding an authoritative journalist and asking penetrating questions, he appears to be appeasing the guests, and begging them for some answers. Duh. Take some inspiration from Karan Thapar and Shekhar Gupta.

If someday you feel that you've been healthy and cheerful for too long, just watch Aaj Tak.

And for those, who're thinking of subscribing to Aajtak (International programming), consider yourself warned.

3 comments:

Łóòň Ġãĺ said...

I think most Indian News Channels are the same ... Aaj Tak .. Star News (That's what we've got) ... show the same bullsht for hours altogether and exactly not what you want to see!

Dhanesh said...

Really ...... Even ZeeNews .... Star News .... and I dont want to discuss about India TV .... Its not even a news channel ... Its comedy channel .....
these all channels have same news ..... and they have common target ..... like Amitabh,Salman,Shahrukh ,katrina ,Sachin tendulkar .... dhoni .... and all .... they hardly talk about India ... its development ... and whenever there is an eclips ..... Aajtak haunts u ... I am damm sure AjTak or any above channel will start Killing ppl with its news even before 21-Dec-2012 ... I think the best is NDTV I think so.

Anonymous said...

All news channels except DD news suck... DD news is the best