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So when is the deal?

Mr. President, I have no time for nuclear. My entire mind is on inflation. I am sleepless.

What big deal. That is a global phenomenon.

We tried that tested foreign hand excuse, but no one is buying it. Even our allies are not with us, only the EC is supporting us, everyone else believes it is because of Congress.

That’s real bad, uh

We need to win Karnatak if we have to win the next lok sabha and unless the clear signs are available I cannot afford to be nuclear. And moreover the communists are……

Stop beating around me [bush] now whats it that you want?

We want a solution for inflation?

Good joke, you askin the wrong man, man if iud know I would have done it here. Any way I can help.

How, by supplying gas?

No by uttering my usual gas- watch out.

What?

Ladies and Gentleman, the reason for the global Inflation is because of the Indian Middle class. QED.

Wah you are a genius I would recommend you for the Nobel if only the communists will allow me to. In one minute you have shifted the blame from congress and now the blame is on the people. The fools will now talk about you and your famous anecdotes and I can happily keep raising prices. You are a genius. Now we will have the natak. The free television will bring us back.

So when is the deal?

Rewind.

News has become a commodity for sale in the country. It can be created, nurtured and even destroyed for a price. It can be preserved, used later or leaked earlier. It can be altered, broken or rebuilt. And like in any economic activity there are middlemen, whole sellers and retailers.

Elections are won in newsrooms; prepolls and exits managed opinions are built and destroyed all for a price. The recent prepoll survey in CNN-IBN is yet another pointer. Now NDTV will compliment it in their exits and slowly they will bring their desired result in the state. They have done it before and hoping to repeat. In fact in Tamilnadu assembly what gave DMK victory was the free sops plus the prepoll surveys. All were stage-managed and the propagandists were all rewarded after the election. Congress is trying a replay.

What is news, how much dose of it, how long is it news, what is its expiry date are all directly proportionate to the income due from it.

What is hot news for jaya is not news at all for rest. And what is hot for the kalignar is cold for jaya. Well this is natural. But see what others do. Raj and Sun almost second kalignar. Makkal is pmk voice, Tamilan vck voice. Vijay has no news.

Recently in Times now I saw Arnob the greatest merchant propagating the vodafone line in their dog controversy. He summoned both sides and tried to give a loud and clear verdict all written by him, probably for a price. In fact the News hour seems to fill coffers for the times, now. Regarding the vodafone ad, it was cute, but their customer care is filled mostly with the barking and howling variety. Try delaying payment by a day and you will know how different they are. It is for this I object the advertisement. My grievance is doing the advt with the wrong dog, while the animal activists are angry because of no South African trip? Well that was what Arnob tried to convey. So the merchants also decide the texture of the news. It is like coffee. The strength, taste, odor and variety all depend on the maker.

While Priyanka’s secret mission to vellore was hot news for all channels, the denial of such event by the Jailer was just like a passing cloud. It bought drops and thunder but vanished soon with the noise. Baalu was all over for a week and now probably he is in swiss for cooling and maintaining a balance. So many channels and so much news, the newsreader and the audience have all become numb to any news. A bomb or a corrupt minister it is breaking news for a hour and then in some distant corner of the archive. No news is followed upon and many die a natural death. Some are killed and some are elongated unnecessarily. All depends on the income.

And for the first time, news was hidden for more than a month and made to coincide with a launch of a news edition. How much and how many would have become richer is any body’s guess.

A congress spokesman openly says that any complaint by subramaiam swami is ought to be ignored by the government because of the bias he has and no one questions his wisdom as to having a biased mind does not take away the sting of the allegation. Whenever BJP throws an allegation, the congress says what right does a party who has Bangaru laksman in its side have any right. And the news channels show this more times and take away the sting. Well so news can be colored also, by will. Even a criminal has a constitutional right to ask for an explanation and so why does the BJP keep silent when they face this dilemma. Probably of a fear it might give light to different news, which they may not like.

Traditionally Congress has been a better news manager inside India and poor outside and vice versa for BJP. If BJP has to win it has to learn the tricks. They need to find more pramods and jaitly and prasads. They also need a strategy. They also should learn to buy news hours and Psephologists. All is fair in war and love and so they have to.

In the state Karunanidhi is setting an example not only for the state not only for the country but also for the world. As a journalist he knows all the methods and has invented many more. He knows how silence will kill any news, he knows when to make it news, he knows to eavesdrop, he knows to appoint commissions to kill news, and well he is a genius. And similarly Jaya has to learn and that too quickly how to ‘ manage’ news. News in her channel is only for her eyes. The same news should be made news for other channels also. The solution is this but how to do it is her problem.

More and more politicians and business men are joining jounalism and television for they are wise to realise that they are more in news when they are in the business of news.

And together they have all made News the most expensive commodity on earth. For the common man any news is 100% gas and for the rest it is more of steel and money.

Continued…..

The rift is working fine for both Sun and Kalaignar Tv. The latter is busy carving a niche and is able to propagate Kalignar and his news much more than before. The former has changed color. It has become more religious, a freedom denied before for safeguarding Dravidian principle. Sakhthi kodu, Thiruvilaiyadal and Ramayan are few in its arsenal. If they were one, Sun would have faced the wrath of the kannadigas when hogenakkal was smoking. Sun still operates from arivalayam and the program schedule of both seems to be for avoiding internal competition and is more targeted at rivals.

A double barrel and probably the rift were managed. Well before or after is the question.

Thiruvilayadal has many well-known stars in it. Manorama, Radhika, sarath, Prithiviraj, Radha ravi etc. And the settings are grandeur worth crores, a first for Tamil television. With Kalanidhi by her side, Radhika is about to create one more milestone. Only she could do it and only he can afford it.

Sun tried every star in the state. And when even simran failed it decided to get Hollywood help. That is the smart sun for you. They screened Chronicles of narnia at 7.30 pm on Sunday and are advertising that every Sunday at 7.30 will be Hollywood special. Dubbed in Tamil there will be more audience. Infact a spot survey points out that even Vijay’s kuruvi program in Kalaignar took a beating. Many kept switching between two, but if remotes with kids even vijay failed to lure. The rest of the channels were snoring.
The Sun’s recipe for Saturday nights is a new jodi porutham. Infact this was their first game show about ten years back with Rego at the helm. Now it is different because of grandeur settings, great prizes and new anchor. I felt rego though not handsome was better anchor. But the program keeps the family in hooks waiting to know whether the contestants got it right. Good competition for Anu and Jodi

Yesterday I saw Simran telling most of the contestants that they were not up to the mark and they had to work on better concept and acting is about tall and handsome. Well almost all applies for her program also. No wonder Sun demoted her program and cut it short by half hour and gave a ten pm slot instead of a one hour none pm slot. May be because it is elims but the standard is poor and except for the setting everything is gloomy. Even Vijay and Simran are not exceptions. But there is scope. Both are capable and if they work in unison they can give better. May be they have to correct their chemistry first.

Meanwhile Simran Thirai is doing well, as expected.

Atlast Vijay copied something almost… They had massive settings for their Vijay Jodi number one semis. Atlast we see them spending money. And the rural settings were better than the inside factory one’s. Sivakarthikayan and Aishweraya, Priya and haritha teams are all in direct finals. Next week will be wild card round. It was nice. But not as glossy as manaada. But definitely the Judges more than compensated. The well-orchestrated seemingly at odds pretence to see all three pairs in finals was commendable and definitely the advertisements got them more audience. I have a spot opinion survey to back this statement. There is something very cute about this program.

The long awaited [?] Vasant Channel has started effective today noon. The second openly congress support channel, run by an MLA from congress. Mr Vasant kumar is a well-known person in Tamilnadu running a retail chain in his name. A look at the TV program schedule shows it has the usual mega serial in the afternoon, a children program for the evening, religion and sermons for the morning, News three times a day a cookery program etc. Yawn. Hope the content brings us a smile.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi today launched the satellite TV channel Vasanth from the party headquarters at 24, Akbar Road here.

The launching was done in the presence of H. Vasanthkumar, chairman and managing director of the channel, and Congress MLA in Tamil Nadu.

Apart from news and current affairs, the channel will also provide entertainment via tele-serials, feature films and documentaries.

It will also focus on the Congress party and its achievements. It is to begin formal broadcasting from May 19.

Will the spring bring more clouds over the sun?

If Radhika is for Sun what is for Kalaignar. Obviously Master Kala. She is now producing Three top programs for the channel and all are TRP winners. Her Maanada and Kana kuyil pattu are in season two and Attam pattam in final stage. What are common between them are high profile judges, glamour, excellent settings, crisp editing, good choreography and big screen effects.

Manada , Jodi number one and Mastana have changed Chennai also. Many people are opting for dance training, we hear. More dance schools have come up and their collections are soaring. The kana kanum brigade’s success in Jodi number one is bringing in more school pupils for summer dance. And the maanada charm and success is making them see stars. The Page three culture is slowly but steadily catching up. Good for the Times. The Next Change?

In the latest episode, Sureshwar and madhu were eliminated. The way Kala scolded her is enough proof of how much control she has on her participants. She expects 100% dedication and absolute surrender and gives a promise of instant stardom and popularity and most are buying it.

Harbhajan and Gill have five things in common. 1. Both are Sikhs.
2. Both are related to sports 3. Both got insults on the same 28th of April. 4. Both are victims of Punjab. The former lost 2.6 crores because of a complaint lodged by ‘AN Australian and film actress’ owned Punjab kings XI and the latter because of a stubborn stand by a Punjabi MS Gill. 5. Both are responsible for their present fate.

What a slap? worth 2.6 crores. Probably his name will come in Guinness book of records for scoring the most expensive slap in the world. May be Oxford dictionary 2009 edition will have a new definition for slap as ‘ what Harbajan gave sreesant for 2.6 crores’. Some newspapers and channels are still not satisfied. They want him banned for ever. Ridiculous. The Europeans know how to preserve their sportsmen. Inspite of a worldwide display of on play aggression by Zidane he is revered in France and all over. Their sports body dealt with the situation such. Here we punish him because of a fear of ridicule from abroad.

Now how does Harbhajan offset his loss? He should negotiate with Sony max. If the slap is worth 2.6 crores what must be the worth of the video which has it? Being the principle actor of this very expensive short film, he deserves a handsome amount which should be at least 2.6 crores. He can also apply for a copyright for the video and also for the word’slap’. If he wins anyone who slaps in the world wherever may have to pay him some pittance and the cumulative amount by this may become his profit. Now sonymax can sell this video to channels like Timesnow, ABC, BBC, RBC, WBC etc and selling multiple copies should fetch them atleast 10 crores. They can sell rights area wise. Timesnow can get back the money or even get a profit by displaying advertisements as ‘ This slap is sponsored by….’ They also can proudly claim that they were the first to slap the nation. They can put Breaking news caption for atleast two days with this video. Similarly this video should sell like hot cake in Australia. Dvd’s can be sold with title ‘The Century slap’ or ‘The return of the monkey’ or ‘The wise caption’s knock’

Now what does poor Harbhajan do this summer, jobless? May be a guilty sreesant will sponsor a soothing massage for him in the land of gods- Kerala. Or the guilty actress may present him with dvd’d of her films which he can see in recluse. Or may be a guilty prince [sorry not rahul] will present him with some slapstick film dvd’s. Now fame and money may follow him without playing.

I think Australia should give a honorary citizenship for shreesant for being instrumental in giving such a moral boost to Australian press. They also in typical Indian style name a street in name of Tom Moody and the Australian CEO of Kings XI for helping in the ban. They should declare Tax free for any film starring zinda and also allow her to shoot in any place in Australia free of cost.

Truly what a slap