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A friend called me up after this post<\/a><\/strong>. “not fair” he said. “Pimps are honest – they tell you what they do and how much they charge”. So i apologise to all the pimps who may be offended by that post. I didn’t mean to insult you.<\/p>\n

Now I might as well be democratic. piss off all media companies simultaneously \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

There is someone in [tag]Times Now[\/tag] who has lost their sense of perspective. There is a feed of the cc camera tape running. it seems unedited. what next ? a live feed of two people having sex ? NDTV is broadcasting the police briefing to the CM at the Taj and the Oberoi. ‘tyana strangulate kela’ says the cop to the CM.<\/p>\n

[tag]Star News[\/tag] has a recreation of the events of [tag] 26\/11[\/tag] – on a show called [tag]City 60[\/tag] where the voice over artist ( i am sure that it can’t be a journalist) has voiced the piece – it cannot be a story – with the urgency of someone covering the Derby. it is followed by a piece on the mourning in Jerusalem accompanied by music out of a Ramsey horror show episode.<\/p>\n

[tag]Sansani[\/tag] is scaring the hell out of me. it is telling the terrorist or the potential armed robber how to breach mall security. Sneak into the basement 101<\/p>\n

And there was Barkha who had a question as long as a dissertation. if you have the answer in the question then why call the guests ?<\/p>\n

Why don’t our TV journalists let other people speak? many of them don’t know enough to be filling that much air time- though ‘woefully ill informed’ and ‘foolishly speculative’ would be more apt. Which possibly explains why the get celebrities who are more stupid and more proactive than them. Simi Garewal anyone ? Are there no people called editors in news channels anymore – people who look at content and ensure that it follows the law of the land and keep the channel from being shut down in violation of broadcasting laws.<\/p>\n

What are channels trying to do? Goad the people to demand war or to start rioting ? That would be good for TRP’s.<\/p>\n

And finally, which of them is telling the truth.
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\"NDTV<\/a>
NDTV headlines<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\nNDTV Online <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

or
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\"ibn\"<\/a>
ibn<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nibn <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

or is Pranab Mukherjee identical twins with the same name, and someone forgot to tell us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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