Hate news channels..

I hate the news channels.. I hate them for featuring the health sections, the terrorism special or just predicting the last day of Earth's history, especially the Hindi news channels.. They can drive any sane man nuts!!

My parents have this strange fixation with Hindi news channels and Hindi newspaper.. All my life, [I know I am not old enough to use the phrase, still it makes me feel that I can express my despair more effectively if I use this particular phrase] I have felt that the Hindi newspaper and news channels are misleading.. I feel, hardly any news telecasted as 'Breaking News' is really worth the title.. Anyways, I hate my parents for believing whatever strange news they show.. Their Pakistan Special and terrorism special news are all hypothetical.. I hate them for ending the bulletin with a question like 'What will India do?' or 'How will America react now?'.. Let the people responsible decide and call a press conference and we all will know what India or America would do..

I sometimes wonder why they want to create panic and chaos when there are other important issues to be scrutinized by the vigilant eyes of a journalist.. They run a single piece of news for hours together making it an irritating issue rather than a major issue of concern.. Be it the 'Arushi Murder case' or any other sensational and controversial piece of news... They'll go on and on about it.. sometimes its the news with all the details they telecasted a few minutes back running again and again..

I hate the health section more though.. At least in case of the same piece of news, even my parents are fed up of the news channel for the day.. But they never miss the India-Pakistan news.. The terrorist camps in the POK and so on.. And their other favorite is the Health special sections, in which a doctor would take calls from frenzied callers like my parents who either suspect to be ill or are diagnosed with the disease.. How can a doctor help you by just hearing you, without seeing your report?? The doctor on panel keeps repeating, consult your doctor every time someone calls, but its useless trying to explain the frantic callers.. I wonder, why they don't ask the channel not to advertise a number to call on.. May be the channels earns through these calls made to their numbers.. I don't know about these channels though I am sure these reality shows do earn out of these calls..

My problem is that my mother is in the habit of self diagnosis.. She hears the doctors talk about a disease and concludes she has the disease.. I know she has a unstable blood pressure and has arthritis but she thinks every single disease is developing in her body.. Its sometimes so irritating to hear her go on and on about the diseases she can develop and is developing.. She thinks very soon she'll be a diabetic and soon a patient of paralysis!! God save her soul of all these self inflicted tortures!!!