Good old news!

Over the last few days I've been following indian news quite intently thanks to this. Thats CNN-IBN's live stream of its news channel. Pretty neat I must say. It serves as a nice trip down memory lane, catching up with journalists that you've grown up watching. But what is most striking is how much of an influnce western, particularly american style television journalism has had on the channel. This might be in part to their tie up with CNN but shows like cyrus broacha's the week that wasn't are a direct copy of jon stewart's daily show. Although you get bored of the repetetive nature of the programming after a while, half an hour of viewing brings you up to date with most of the day's happenings. And its nice to see good old indian advertising for a change, which is far more sensible than its american counterpart.