Media
ABP News journalists clash over custody of coffee mugs with old Star News logo
Jun. 28 |Employees of television news channel ABP News, which was earlier known as Star News, are reported to be fighting with each other over ownership of now obsolete paraphernalia that had Star News logo printed on them.
India to absorb all hours extended by Arnab Goswami in The Newshour
Jun. 18 |Realizing the fact that every hour was extended by a few minutes during the Newshour program on Times Now news channel, the government has decided to go slow by a day so that people who watch Times Now or “your channel” are on the same tracks as the rest of the Indian citizens.
Indian Express launches ‘Aman Ki Asha’ for peace between Army and Government
Apr. 5 |After claiming that there was huge trust deficit between the military and the government, Indian Express has decided to launch a peace initiative called Aman Ki Asha as part of Confidence Building Measures between the two parties. Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief of Indian Express, announced that the campaign was aimed at bridging the trust deficit that was exposed by the newspaper through a front page story.
Idiots of India sue The Hindu for mocking them in advertisement
Jan. 27 |Indian Idiot Society has decided to file a defamation case against Chennai based daily newspaper The Hindu for mocking their beliefs and way of life in an advertisement targeting the rival newspaper The Times of India. These idiots, who don’t want to know anything else that the pet name of Hrithik Roshan, claim that The Hindu ad demeans their dignity for no justifiable reason.
Sonia Gandhi unhappy with policy logjam, corruption, cold weather, and slow internet
Dec. 15 |Various news reports published by the mainstream media networks today confirmed that Sonia Gandhi, the leader of the ruling Congress party, was upset with some terrible things happening in the country. Media reports declared that although Sonia Gandhi wanted to do away with such terrible things, she was finding herself completely helpless, despite being the strongest person in India as far as politics goes.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s child delivery to be broadcast live
Nov. 11 |Just a couple of days after Editors of TV news channels issued guidelines to “exercise restraint” in covering the news of Aishwarya Rai’s delivery, a news channel has broken away and bought the “exclusive broadcast rights” for the event for a whopping 200 crore rupees. News One, a newly born news channel, has announced that it will broadcast the delivery live from Breach Candy hospital in Mumbai.
TV channel finds a man who still doesn’t know about Ra.One
Oct. 24 |In a shocking development that raises serious questions over Ra.One promotions, a little know television news channel has found a man who has absolutely no idea about SRK’s upcoming movie. This glaring failure of Ra.One’s marketing campaign has come to the fore just a couple of days ahead of the movie’s release, and has sent industry players into nervousness, who were hoping to do brisk business this Diwali.
Blank news report on Narendra Modi receives 3720 comments
Oct. 23 |An article on Narendra Modi, which was accidentally left blank by a leading news website, received over three thousand comments within a couple of hours of being published. The report titled “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet Narendra Modi”, which appears like a headline template in the CMS software, received mixed responses from hundreds of commentators who toiled hard to debate the “merits” of the news story.
Orissa floods spoil news channel’s plan to get local reaction on Bigg Boss
Oct. 3 |News One, a 24-hours national television news channel has scrapped its grand plans to ask people living in rural Orissa on what they thought about the television reality show Bigg Boss, which started on Gandhi Jayanti yesterday. The news channel had to take this extreme step after its team found out that those parts of Orissa, where they wanted to go, were submerged in flood waters.
Dead NASA satellite debris crash-lands on India TV’s office
Sep. 24 |American space agency NASA has confirmed that a large chunk from its dead satellite UARS has fallen upon the office of Indian television news channel India TV. Although no one was killed in the incident, the impact caused a big hole in the roof of the television channel’s building and at least three employees suffered concussion on their heads causing them to temporarily lose their sens
