Mainstream media goes nuts again

Today prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh had a bypass surgery, the media was out trying to make a story of it, unfortunately there was not much of a story.

First Aajtak started with elections and how he will not be able to campaign. Then Headlines Today got to who has the nuclear button, then others went on with who will take decisions. Some channels started succession battle in UPA.
The best character was in the press conference where he asked a question that as per his information the surgery should have taken 5 hours why did it take so long, something must have gone wrong?
Finally in the evening when doctors said that PM can do some of his work in two weeks and most of his work in four weeks, one of the channels was showing a ticker saying, PM can do some of his work in four weeks.
God bless PM that these media idiots were not involved in medical decisions otherwise we would be in real trouble.

The dumb main stream media again

See this news item. Here is what the article claims.

Gourav Bhattacharya of Mumbai knows how to bell the CAT. He - like only 10-odd other management aspirants all over India - has scored a 100 percentile in the entrance examination to the Indian Institutes of Management.

I am not an expert in calculating percentiles, but I know couple of things for sure. When scores are represented as percentiles, there would be always one person who gets the top percentile.

I am not even sure that anybody can get 100 percentile. As per the percentile rank definition from wikipedia

The percentile rank of a score is the percentage of scores in its frequency distribution which are lower. For example, a test score which is greater than 90% of the scores of people taking the test is said to be at the 90th percentile.

As per above definition, one can not get 100 percentile because that would mean that your score is greater than the score of 100% of the people taking test, that would be impossible because you are also part of 100%.

The dumb main stream media

Here is another stupid media headline. Here is what the headline says.

SACHIN SCORES ON THE FIELD, YUVI OFF ITâ??WITH DEEPIKA

This is supposed to be the largest mainstream daily for English news in India. I think we really need a new news paper.

Pathetic Indian Media

After the end of world cup I was trying to watch something useful on TV that is non-cricket, I came across a program on "Headlines Today" channel, where they were showing Kapil Dev and Sir Richard Hadlee playing a game of golf. On the same day Gaurav Ghei had won Bejing open golf tournament and they was no mention of him.

I can understand media's fixation with cricket but if they have to show a game of golf, they could have shown a proper golf player player golf, but then that is really asking for too much from them.