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I love NDTV. It's pure entertainment. Not just because it sucks and is totally biased towards the Congress, but also because it used to be respectable and is just tumbling down the social ladder of relevance now. Granted, Times Now and CNN-IBN are pretty much in the same league too, but there's something distinctly shameless about NDTV I find really amusing.

So, you're going to have to click on the image to view it properly. It's a screenshot of the NDTV Movies webpage which I found somewhat funny, especially how cheap the journalism seems:


#1 - Seriously? More babies? Either all those kids were Cesarean births, or this woman has a steel-trap uterus.

#2 - First there was this news piece on some news channel that displayed its headlines as 'Jane Goody Finally Dies'. I get it. She was a scripted racist, uttering scripted lines from a scripted screenplay on a scripted reality show in scripted upper-class scripted Britain. Are you tippers so devoid of news that you had to wait around to report that she 'finally died'? Not cool. Also, if her sons don't want to attend, it's a private matter. I don't think they're even old enough to grasp what death is, but either way, it is immeasurably disgusting that some il-fortuned journalist actually took the initiative to report it.

#3 - SRK's hit-list and our very own Padma Shrimathi's ex-illicit lovers. It doesn't matter if your boss is glaring at you right this minute for using the office broadband to surf superficial Bollywood gossip instead of compiling the monthly spreadsheets; this is the kind of knowledge that gives you an edge over Gauthama Buddha.

#4 - In an era when Varun Gandhi gets smack for being pro-Hindu and Shashi Tharoor pisses off major political figures for supporting the Jews in ONE article, I still can't quite comprehend how Sardar jokes are still considered conventional entertainment. Especially since they're about as funny as those fart jokes we used to crack ribs laughing at in the second grade.



*Thinking of making this Snapshot thing a frequent post*

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