Breaking News: There is none!

A lot many people who watch any of the many news channels will understand what I want to say here.

When I was a kid, there were no 24 hour news channels. The only news program was being aired on Doordarshan, twice a day for 15 minutes. That news used to be crisp and contained most of the events of the day, which anyone would be interested in. Now there are as many as 30 news channels, who claim to be airing news for 24 hours a day. Do you think the life is more eventful, than it was 10 years ago. I don't think so. I think the news still can be told in 15 mins, but we get to see those 15 mins in 720 (24*30) hours.

And what we get is something similar to following:
1. A boy falls in a hole and we get to see him for 60 hours. Many news channels were even showing live coverage of the rescue operations. All we got to see was repeated clips of the boy in the hole and people outside the hole praying for his life.
2. One character in a TV serial does something and we are shown clippings of that for hours. If you don't watch the complete story, you will be confused, that Smriti Irani might be going to prison now for killing someone, which was caught on tape by some news channel. Alas it was a clipping of some TV serial being aired on a news channel.
3. We get to watch programs like Hansega India, Aisi Ki Taisi on a news channel.
4. Some girl creates trouble in a wedding, the groom was supposedly her ex-boyfriend/ex-husband and we get to see a live coverage of that.
5. You get to vote (share your views) for anything and everything. I am most amazed by 5% of the voters who always vote "can't say", even though they know that they will be charged 6 Rs for that SMS.
6. Some actor is seen hand in hand with an actress and we get to see news of their marriage. And very next day, we get to hear denial statements from those involved in the story. This way they get to cover at least 2 days.
7. The water at Mahim bay turns sweet and people are there to drink that water. Once after that news I was near Mahim bay and I could not stand the foul smell there. BTW later it was confirmed by some scientists that it happens every year but since there weren't so many news channels, it never came on TV and so many people were saved from drinking that water.
8. Some God's image has appeared on some wall and people are gathering there to worship the God. Well I can show you various such images on my walls, during rains.

I wonder if things keep on going the way they are, the day is not far away when we get to watch news like these:
1. Two friends were arguing on some point and one slappped the other. They are shown live on TV.
2. Amitabh Bachchan's maid didn't turn up today. Jaya Bacchan was seen sweeping the house herself, while Aishwarya was getting ready for a party. And guess what, this could lead to a divorce between Abhi and Ash.
3. Salman Khan kicked one dog under the influence of alchohal, hear Menka Gandhi's comments on the event.
4. There was a peace talk between India and Pakistan, look for the details during our 60 Seconds headlines section.

What the hell, where is this taking us.