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This is the Sports section of Times Now, a news site that sucks just as much as its mother television channel. And every news article released over the last few days have all been based on the IPL.

In comparison to the three random articles that ran when the hockey team won the Azlan Shah Cup.

It's an IPL frenzy. And an ironic one, since it isn't even taking place in India. Do you realize that Lalit Modi has flown out more than two thousand Indians, including the team owners, sponsors, players and crew? To thousand Indians lost, two thousand votes lost. Prominent personalities like Tendulkar, SRK and many others might not be voting this year, and since they influence so many people, we'll have probably lost the voters they could have convinced too. The current voting rate is at about 58-62% and even a thousand people can make a reasonable difference.

It's also quite funny (and I mean banging-head-on-table-funny, not haha-funny) how Lalit Modi was depressed that the League was not going to be held in India. You know, considering he's so patriotic and all. But now that he's stolen about two thousand votes from the same India he loves so much, perspectives might change.
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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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