News as time pass

IN Media Watch Briefs | 02/04/2013

A heated discussion on Nidhi Razdan's Left, Right and Centre on NDTV 24x7 saw the usual suspects debating how many seats the BJP could hope to get in the next election. Earlier you had such debates when an election was round the corner. This one is more than a year away. What purpose is served other than establishing that news programming now just amounts to time pass?

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Let the games begin

Clearly, the run to the 2019 elections is on. A journalist received a call from someone saying they were from Aajtak channel and were conducting a survey, asking whom she was going to vote for in 2019. On being told that her vote was secret, the caller assumed she wasn't going to vote for 'Modiji'. The caller, a woman, also didn't identify herself. A month or two earlier the same journalist received a call, this time from a man, asking if she was going to vote for the BSP.