How Television news stars won war

India’s best-known television journalists appear to have finally beaten Ekta Kapoor in the battle for TRPs. In six days flat. The all-out war witnessed editors being paradropped, reporters lying prostrate on the ground when not blaring into the cameras, and a thousand “breaking stories” every day.

Here’s how the TRPs were garnered, shot by shot, starting around 10.30 pm on Wednesday, November 26:

• Close in on the woman in tears — show her from every possible angle and deliver a soul-wrenching commentary of what might be going through her mind.
• Repeatedly flash shots of the adorable, crying child. Shove your mike in his face. Oh! hasn’t learnt to talk yet, not even Yiddish? Ask the woman carrying the child how she rescued him from the carnage.

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