So, who’s not good, is a question I thought was pleading to be asked. Knowing Kurien, the answer may have generated a couple of headlines.

But the quirkiest thing I saw was a sentence across the screen when CNN-IBN was reporting on an event attended by Manmohan Singh and Amartya Sen. ‘‘Man bites Doc’’, I read. I have a simple question. How did that get in? That punning is a low art doesn’t make it abhorrent for journalism. When, for example, the Economist some years back captioned a pro-Nafta demonstration, ‘‘Nafta we hafta, or have problems thereafta’’, only the most sadly conservative grammarians among its readers would not have chuckled.

‘‘Man bites Doc’’ is not only not funny, not only is it silly, it was stupendously irrelevant given the story, which was really about a prime minister and a celebrated intellectual saying a lot of nice, grave things in a nice, pleasant setting.

Appalled as I was, I still didn’t think if the ‘‘poor dears’’ of TV journalism were ‘‘a little less shallow and...a little more thoughtful and educated, the cause of the media would be better served’’. These marvelously malevolent adjectives are courtesy a CNN-IBN journalist, whose letter on Express media columnists was published in this newspaper on March 29. Would that the critic had substantively critiqued what we try to do.