The TV business media belongs to a secret cabal where they observe certain codes of conduct only they follow, with impunity. They don’t have to reveal any interest they may have in a particular venture or from the investor’s point of view, stand by their word — you do, if you can fully understand them. Therefore, to “profit from it”, the viewer/investor must already know his or her business — in which case, why bother? Otherwise, you receive authoritative (and perhaps insider?) but unclear and at-your-own-risk advice on whether to buy, sell, hold in the short term, sell in the midterm and shift to techno in the long term depending on profitability, purchasability, the state of the decline ratio...

Our expert advice: the media must heed outgoing SEBI Chairman M. Damodaran’s warning against the ‘anchor-investors’ (NDTV’s Walk the Talk). Will they, or must they be forced to?

Monday was election day in Pakistan and a date with a tiger in a small village in West Bengal.

Times Now news anchor: Shafiq Ahmed in Peshawar, tell us, what is going on in Pakistan?

Shafiq: There is nothing going on... enthusiasm in Peshawar is low, no activities, very few people are going to cast their votes...

Zee News anchor: So-and-so, tell us what was the mood in the village when the tigress wandered in?

Zee correspondent: There was great hulchul, and tremendous excitement and activity as the entire village came out to hunt down the tigress (visual of people milling below a tree where the tigress sits with a full frontal grin). The tigress was sedated, fell into the lake and is now in hospital...

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