Let’s call out pantomime artists masquerading as TV reporters

In what is being described as a pursuit of truth that the nation wants to know but what is in reality a cynical chase of ratings and eyeballs, the pantomime artists who masquerade as news reporters in India’s broadcast industry have surpassed themselves in recent weeks. The phenomenon of a news reporter prancing around over a non-story is hilarious, as is the television reporter in an adrenaline-fuelled chase pursuing a motorcade in which a movie star is purportedly headed for the airport. That reporter’s miserable pursuit, peppered with breathless commentary, was a poor imitation of US networks filming O.J. Simpson’s car chase by the police, which happened what seems like a century ago.