Operation Bypass

The Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh is recuperating from a bypass surgery at the Intensive Care Unit of the AIIMS.
But what baffled me the most was the fact that the PM was more under the IMC or Intensive MEDIA Care than under the much required Intensive MEDICAL Care. The way the most erstwhile of Indian media houses covered this story would put to shame the hardcore paparazzi fraternity of the British media.
Interviewing Dr. Singh’s nephews and asking them how they wish to remember their uncle or asking the Congress spokesman ‘Are you keeping your fingers crossed?' was some display of abysmal journalism. Graphics and info on what a bypass were also provided. A discussion on the technicalities of a bypass with the most eminent of cardiac surgeons was shown on prime time. This was simply not in line with the journalistic basics but a show by, for and of the TRP mad media sharks. Well, the only personal positive outcome was that I switched from the news channels to the good old Cartoon Network much to my daughter's delight.
A couple of weeks back the Indian media provided us some live coverage of a terrorist attack with some grenade throwing action and AK 47 firings. Thanks to the intensive security around the operation theatre we just fell short of a live coverage of a bypass surgery or else the good old Indian media would have made a theater out of the operation.
If they had an opportunity they would have even called it 'The live coverage of Operation Bypass'.

Wishing you a speedy recovery Mr. Prime Minister.