NDTV's dilemma
Hindi has been a weak spot at NDTV, the skipper Pronnoy himself knows very little of it and his turks including Rajdeep Sardesai, Arnab Goswami, Barkha Dutt and Abhhigyan Prakash just manage to speak tuti-phuti Hindi only when in dire need. Yet NDTV was in a dilemma to start a lateral Hindi channel when its deal with Star was over. Many news anchors made hay as they hopped from strong Hindi channels like Aaj Tak and now as you look at the state of NDTV India you can gauge that it is precisely not NDTV Bharat. The channel is for the anglicized urban India with absolutely no sarokaar with ground situations. With exposure to programme like Jina Issi Ka Naam hai NDTV has these cinema-based shows where the news anchors are actually behaving like actors (remember the item where the pitch dark presenter is playing a double role, disgusting). And there has been little effort to change the style of anchors as well, Punya Prasun still speaks khadi boli the Aaj Tak way, Pankaj Pachori is still blatantly confused, Abhigyan still has that poor Hindi diction.
And it seems the team of Pronnoy, who had shown Indians how a news presenter should be, needs a lesson or two on news presentation. Take the evening newscasts for example. You may start wondering if something is wrong with Dibang's eyesight, or the studio lights are too piercing or is it the teleprompter that's gone wary. A seasoned professional like him who used to flawlessly deliver news at Aaj Tak seems utterly confused, stammering umpteen times, unable to read from the teleprompter and not having any clue what is ahead when he is stuck somewhere. The headlines, mostly, are heftily assembled and utterly jumbled up fragments of Hindi. Even the local Hindi tabloids know how to frame a better crispy sentence. The only solace is, thank god, the news reports.
In the race of news channels Sahara Samay, despite of having an obvious bias, is picking up well perhaps due to the regional approach and people who know the language. With its nodal centres on the pipeline this would be a force to reckon with.
Cumm-on NDTV, we could appreciate that commercial compulsions can lead you to jump on an unknown terrain. But at least with your reputation I expected a better preparation.
ALL NDTV GUYS CAME FROM HINGLISHITAN.THEY SPEAK HINDI IN ENGLISH VERSION.WHY NDTV DO LIKE THIS?I
DON’T KNOW BUT I M SURE THAT I M FAR BETTER THAN
MOST OF NDTV GUYS(WORKING FOR NDTV HINDI NEWS).I
HAVE BEEN IN ELECTRONIC MEDIA FOR PAST 7-8 YEARS.
HAVING GOOD SKILL IN HINDI(POLITICAL-SOCIAL) SCRIPT-WRITING & ANCHORSHIP(IN HINDI),I FEEL I M NOT FROM HINGLISHTAN LIKE NDTV GUYS.
Will Rajdeep read the todays messages done by the other side of communalises on interaction column ?? No, infact he will come out to defend and justify the muslims hegemony. whatelse can he do.? He has to earn his name as great secularist and has to forget the fairness as he is too afraid to cricize the muslims. He is a wonderful secularist . His knowledge does not go beyond the boundaries of his convent school and a small gori chamdi stint in London. Wish he knew the harm he did to swa-jaati, hiw own race. Cowards cticise their own race and put their tail between two legs when it come to criticize the muslims.
Well,I think now a days when it’s hard to get a small job or admission in schools and collages without good Knowledge os english ; then it would be totally unfair on our part if we do’nt appreciate the hard work done by the NDTV’s team.
As far as the economical compulsions are concerned then every news chhanel do it; but at least NDTV shows us so many different and fabulus programs that any other news channel hardly do it.
In early seventies, our ex PM Shri. Chandrashekhar and other were known as idealists, ethical young ” YOUNG TURKS “. With passing of years, he was accused of every thing on earth, including misguiding the nation and embazzlement of large sums.
ALL THE GUYS AT NDTV NOT ONLY SPEAK ENGLISH, BUT ALSO THINK LING ENGLISHMEN. SHOULD WE SAY THE BROWN BABUS, WHO ARE OUT TO GET FOREIGN APPRECIATION RATHER THAN PEOPLE OF INDIA’S? NDTV DISCARDS ANYTHING AGAINST THEIR MEDIA MEN/WOMEN WITH IMPERIOUS AND POMPUS SCORN. WHO CARES WHETHER THEY SPEAK HINDI OR NOT ? IT SEEMS THAT THEY THINK THAT A SUCCESS OF A JOURNALIST IS MORE WHEN THEY CAN ANNOY MORE PEOPLE. WELL PEOPLE LIKE ME ARE NOT ANNOYED BUT AMUSED TO SEE THESE DANCERS.
i think u r absolutely right about NDTV. despite of getting top shots of AAJ TAK like debang,punya prasoon,nagma,sikta, they have failed to make a dent at other news channels TRPs. their presentation is bad and so is the editing technicalities.
time to improve to keep up the competition….