Friday, August 24, 2007

No News coverage for ONGC Cup

Its really frustated that there is no news coverage for ONGC International Cup @Delhi. Our Media's Sports section has been confined to Cricket only. On one side these 24 hours channels includes 'Sabse Tej', 'Dil me sach, jubaan pe India', 'Khabar - har keemat par' are providing pre & post cricket match analysis daily for hours with guys like Nikhil Chopra (negligible contribution to Indian cricket) & Ajay Jadeja (caught in fixing), also providing a running tab for live scores....
other side there was no single line news update for ongoing ONGC international soccer Cup whether the Indian side lost or won.

India won by 6-0, 2-0 etc does not comes even under the criteria of news but yes zaheer khan, RP Singh caught by viral is really a BIG news for them.

The worst part is that even DD1 does follow cricket only in "Sports". For everything else there is separate channel called "DD sports". If they have made this to telecast all live games strictly on 'DD sports' then what special in the cricket only that it gets prime time on DD1. Prasar Bharti made out pillar to post efforts to telecast cricket live 2 years back for such a boring 8 hours duel on DD1, but a big NO to any other games like soccer (2 hours), tennis (1 hour) etc.

These 24 hours news channel r FOS (full of shit)
Seriously very dissapointing.

Just because of this media hype, I can proudly say "I am one among them who hates cricket a lot". It was only reason why I left play & see cricket eight years back. I was the happiest person on earth when I saw Indian Cricket Team has been kicked out from the tourno in very first round of WC 2007.

The day this cricket hype would end up in india, other sports & sportpersons will get better opportunities & media coverage.
Lets hope Good.

Aameeen !!!

1 comment:

FORGOTTEN REALMS said...

yo ..the other sports part is preety true the cricketers are performing upto mark yet they are over hyped