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TBH NDTV news network has best presentation' date=' interface and journalists. Others give headache, blind you with excessive use of colors like Red on screen. NDTV is [b']largely Pro Congress otherwise its most tolerable. BTW Ravish Kumar resembles Mulayam and Akhilesh Yadav.
yes i agree with this:two_thumbs_up:
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He may be annoying in debates but his passion for change for the better is insurmountable.
He is constantly trying to get his participants to play the roles he has decided for them, if somebody tries to object they are shouted upon, silenced or dismissed from the screen. All the shouting, interference and chaos in his shows are result of a badly thought out drama he is forcing the participants to enact. This is more serious than annoying.
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Found this brilliant speech by Arnab Goswami -
A must watch. He may be annoying in debates but his passion for change for the better is insurmountable.
Didnt see the video but Goswami is not just annoying but most superficial anchor with no depth on anything. Cant tolerate him for a minute.
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Arnab Goswami: Ekta Kapoor of tv news On Thursday night, minutes after Parliament approved the formation of Telangana, Lagadapati Rajagopal, the Member of Parliament who had used pepper spray in the Lok Sabha the previous week in protest, was on NDTV 24x7. The anchor addressed him as “Mr Rajagopal” throughout a civil discussion on the volatile subject. In the next hour, Rajagopal was on Times Now, where the anchor, the fiery Arnab Goswami, kept calling him “Pepper Spray MP” and “Mr Pepper Spray Politician”. Rajagopal was on Goswami’s show also on the day he had used the pepper spray in the House, failing miserably to get a word in while Goswami called him a disgrace, a shame and demanded an apology on behalf of the nation on his 9 pm show, The Newshour. So, it was a surprise to see Rajagopal back on Goswami’s show a second time. Soon after the show ended at 11 pm, Rajagopal spoke to Business Standard. “It is his show. That is his style,” he said. “I am just happy that he accepts my calls and my reasoning. He doesn’t have to accept me as a person.” This might defy logic. But then that’s the power of Goswami, the just-in-his-40s editor-in-chief of Times Now, and his brand of ‘pop journalism’. Barring a few personalities who have decided never ever to appear on what is often termed as ‘Arnab’s Reality Show’, most others are willing participants in his 9 pm slugfests where practically every panellist tries to outshout the other, nobody gets to hear what they are saying and the hour-long discussion ends with really no takeaway for the viewer. Night after night, the usual suspects like Congress spokesperson Sanjay Jha and Bharatiya Janata Party’s Meenakshi Lekhi are sitting ducks for Goswami to take potshots at. Such is the brand he has created of himself — mocked by most, despised by some but followed by all — that when Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi finally decided to give his first ever one-on-one television interview, he chose Goswami. A former colleague of his at Times Now describes Goswami as “the Ekta Kapoor of English news TV because he knows the popular sentiment and milks it.” Adds Sumit Sinha, managing partner, Alchemist Brand Consulting: “I don’t know whether people take him seriously or look at the act he puts on every night as comedy, but he has change the paradigm of how TV news is consumed.” There is ample proof that he is watched, even if for his histrionics. Last year on Kaun Banega Crorepati, one of the questions that Amitabh Bachchan asked was, “With which TV anchor would you most associate the phrase ‘The nation wants to know’?” Not long ago, online shopping portal Flipkart came out with an advertisement with children enacting Goswami’s Newshour. Go to YouTube and there are dozens of spoofs all centred on Goswami. * * * It would be tempting to assume that to be on Goswami’s show would be an advertiser’s dream. “No doubt Times Now commands 50 per cent of the advertising of all English news channels during the one or one-and-a-half hours when Arnab’s show is on,” says Anwesh Bose, senior vice-president, DDB MudraMax. “But the channel demands an irrational amount of money for that band — Rs 20,000 for a 10-second slot. Other channels like NDTV charge Rs 7,000-8,000 per 10 seconds,” he adds. So a long-term advertising deal with Times Now isn’t really beneficial, he says. “I advise my clients that at such a premium, you can advertise in all other English news channels put together. Besides, Arnab being Arnab will take a break as and when he wants to, so there are a lot of missed spots, which means that advertisements often get dropped.” To a request for an interview by Business Standard, Goswami responded, “I am generally low profile outside of the channel and have largely avoided interviews and interactions.” An Army officer’s son from Assam, he was never quite the star that he is today. His former colleagues at NDTV, where he spent about a decade, don’t recall any outstanding quality. “He was the backbone of the political desk. But that’s about it. He was a normal, nice guy and now you hear these mythical things about him,” says a senior NDTV journalist who has worked closely with him for several years. Someone who has known him from his days at The Telegraph in Kolkata remembers him as a meek, shy person. “It’s a different man I see on screen,” she says. Both former and current colleagues would rather not be named in an article on him. One former colleague who worked with Times Now in Mumbai for nearly two years says that whenever Goswami saw that something on NDTV or CNN IBN wasn’t showing on his channel, “he would emerge from his office roaring, ‘You people are trying to ruin my channel’. And his voice would travel down the long corridor and past the offices of Zoom and ET Now.” He’s a man who never sleeps, a colleague says. “He’s like an invisible presence constantly in our lives.” Goswami is also known not to take resignations kindly. A young journalist who had just quit approached his cabin in great terror to say goodbye and nearly collapsed with relief when Goswami looked up and smiled at him. “He told me, ‘Wherever you go, remember your stint at Times Now because this channel is changing the face of India and you, by being part of it, have played a role in India’s history,” he recalls. “He really does believe that sitting alone in Mumbai (all other major English news channels are based in Delhi) he is the lone anchor-journalist looking at the interest of India.” Hartosh Singh Bal, the political editor of Caravan magazine who is a frequent panellist on Goswami’s shows, says this might be one reason that politicians who are the anchor’s favourite target keep returning to his show. “He perhaps carries more credibility and impact, despite the drama he puts on, because he is not a part of the power game or Delhi’s cocktail circuit,” says Bal. * * * A former Times Now journalist who was part of the channel’s startup team says he would charge everybody up in such a way that “we all felt we were going to war, but who we were waging the war against we didn’t know”. Initially everybody thought Times Now was going to be a business channel. NDTV was then the only English news channel. “Then one day, he said, ‘I have a surprise for you. Do you know who our competition is?’ And he dramatically wrote on the board ‘NDTV’,” says the journalist. But a month before Goswami was to launch Times Now, Rajdeep Sardesai, his former colleague and competitor from NDTV, launched CNN IBN. “Sardesai was a known brand and he’d taken 30 per cent of NDTV’s staff with him. We all were in shock, but Goswami overcame it fast and said, ‘We will be different. We will pick one news and make it the news of the day’,” she adds. He wanted shaky visuals, reporters running after politicians with mikes and even entertainment done as breaking news with live chats in the middle of the night on even subjects like Kareena Kapoor dating Saif Ali Khan. Nothing seemed to work. So, he decided that in the morning people don’t watch news, so “let’s do business stories” — markets. Five hours were set aside for that. The plan bombed. Then he decided that on weekends, people don’t watch news, so let’s do special packages. This became a roaring success but then Times Now became a channel only to be watched on weekends, and thus, a “light-weight” channel, says a former colleague. The 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attack in 2008 proved to be the turning point. Goswami set a record hosting news of the attack for over 65 hours. People sat up and took notice of him. “His tone, of a vigilante, struck a chord with the nation shocked by the audacity and horror of the attack. And that’s the tone he has maintained ever since, for discussion on every subject,” says a colleague. “He does not overrate the audience’s intelligence.” But how sustainable is this brand of journalism? What happens when people tire of it? Will Times Now then survive, given that Times Now is Arnab Goswami? “As long as he is consistent, he will have an audience,” says Sinha of Alchemist. “It’s like a predictable brand of which you know what to expect and that’s comforting.” Not everybody agrees. “There is the law of diminishing utility. People will tire of him because this cannot be sustained on a long term,” says media planner Bose. “When that happens, both Arnab and Times Now will be in trouble.” As always, when it comes to Goswami, opinion is divided.
http://wap.business-standard.com/article/specials/arnab-goswami-the-ekta-kapoor-of-tv-news-114022100939_1.html Love him or hate him but if you watch English news, you certainly can't ignore him.
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Does the Nation Really Want To Know?

Many readers here would have, at some point of time, heard Arnab Goswami thundering at 100 decibels at 9.00 pm “Please answer this question! The Nation Wants to Know”. Let us dig up some facts to see how big is this ‘nation’ that Arnab claims to represent. Guess what? On any given night, less than 4 lakh Indians watch this show! Yes, you read it right. Less than 4 lakh people! So to be technically correct, next time Arnab should be saying “Please answer this question! 0.033% of this nation wants to know”. Because that is the proportion of the country’s population (4/12000) that Arnab claims to represent. It is a different matter that even those who are watching the show may not fully agree with his line of questioning! The numbers appear to be ridiculously low for one of the most popular English News Channel/Show, and some explanation is in order. Here are the hard facts: 1. TV Penetration in India is still low, with about 12 crore TV sets in a country of 120 crores 2. Hindi General Entertainment (~30%) and Regional Channels (~28%) garner a lion’s share of the total TV viewership followed by Hindi movies and Kids channels covering another 20% (Source: thehoot.org a popular media-watch portal) 3. National News viewership is less than 4% of the total viewership, of which almost 90% is Hindi news, leaving less than 0.4% of total viewership for English News channels (Source: FICCI report on Media & Entertainment industry) 4. Thus, even assuming every TV set has 2 viewers (which is a bit over-estimation in case of news channels), at 0.4% of total viewership, this turns out to about 10 lakh viewers on any given night for all English news channels put-together! The reader can apply the market share data often thrown by these channels to assess the size of viewership of specific channels. 5. Even on the most “newsy” day of election results, the TV viewership of Hindi News channels are of a magnitude several times higher than the English news channels, and these two put together account for an insignificant portion of the total TV Viewership. This insignificance of English News Channels can also be corroborated by the advertisement rates.The current advertisement rates for English News channels for a 10-second spot are in the range of just Rs. 3000 (which can go up to Rs. 20000 at prime time), while this range could be between Rs. 50,000 to Rs. 4,00,000 per 10-second spot for popular Hindi General Entertainment channels! And the official government rates published by Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity (DAVP) make this irrelevance of news channels even more glaring! As per DAVP, rates are less than Rs. 500 for 10-second spot in all English News channels even on prime time as compared to Rs. 40000 – 50000 for popular Hindi General Entertainment channels. So, here are a few simple take-aways… 1. Next time when you watch Arnab Goswami (or Barkha Dutt or Sardesai or any other English news anchor), bear this simple fact in mind – that their reach is 0.033% of the population! 2. Avoid over-the-top reactions on Twitter, when you see silly utterances by news anchors.Remember, these are the ones who made fun of 31% voteshare! For all you know, this is their way of keeping themselves relevant in public discourse! 3. Bear in mind that many popular and reasonable Twitterati may be influencing more minds than these news anchors on any given day! The tweet by Nassim Nichol Taleb today that Twitter is the new ‘Uber of discourse’ sounds almost prophetic!
http://swarajyamag.com/commentary/the-facts-behind-the-nation-wants-to-know/
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jb5Nxytj6hs&list=UUustbySVJGb659WDpdkeATg UuxV_TCgCto&list=UUustbySVJGb659WDpdkeATg If someone who has never heard of Rajdeep Sardesai watches this video then he/she would think that Rajdeep is the most honest journalist ever and holds no grudges and has no bias for/against any political party/politician :haha:

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