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Let us paint a picture. It is 3 am in a modest flat in Mumbai’s Byculla. A mother is clutching her phone, staring at a television screen that promises her “Breaking News: World War III Begins!” with pounding music, CGI missiles and a scrolling ticker predicting the complete annihilation of Tehran. Her son works in Dubai. She cannot reach him. The network is jammed. She is weeping.
This is not journalism. This is arson disguised as reportage. And this is precisely why India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting’s decision to pull the plug on Television Rating Points for four weeks isn’t just a penalty – it is a public service announcement wrapped in a sedative .
We have reached a point where our news channels have confused West Asia with a film set. Suddenly, every anchor is a retired general, every graphic is a fireball and every development is met with the kind of hyperbolic screech usually reserved for a last-ball IPL finish. “Ailaan-e-jung!” declared one channel, as if they were personally declaring war rather than reporting on it .
Switch from Al Jazeera, where a correspondent soberly discusses geopolitics with a map, to a Hindi news channel where the same story is accompanied by a...