How We Turned Our News Agencies Into Drama Queens

Mercifully short lived drama and “artistes”

As I sat watching Kannada news on TV 9 in Bangalore, all I could think of was how such a drama queen of a network came to be a prominent news agency in my hometown.

Every political event, road accident, protest or communal conflict, was accompanied with a liberal dose of bombastic and appropriately dramatic music. The headlines across the TV screen were ludicrous. “WAR BREAKING”…