Aaj ki taaza khabar, Aaj ki taaza khabar News headlines, front page But which one is front page?
In some cases, it’s not the 1st or the 2nd page With TOI, sometimes it’s the 5th page which is the front page news When randomly checked, it was observed that its adverts constitute about 60% of the total pages. What has happen to the journalism? Fomento Chairman Auduth Timblo rightly said on TV recently ‘Every advertisement is an encroachment on editorial’ What about the local TV news channels? Prudent claims it has gone super and bigger with 1 hour long news bulletin - Va re vah! What really gone super and bigger are the commercial breaks When randomly checked Sept/Oct , it was found commercial adverts were longer than the news i.e. 35mins and 36.5mins respectively, thus actual news shrinking to just 24 minutes? Wait, elections are coming soon... Make hay while the sun shines We see that some channels taking advantage of it already including some paid news etc Newspapers are full of irritating commercial leaflet inserts, so they make money on it too? https://flic.kr/p/w6RuEh
