Times Now hit a new low of journalism after India lost to Australia today. While social media was getting flooded with Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli jokes, the yellow journalism focused popcorn media house tried to spice the event with contemptuous hashtag (#ShamedInSydney) and ridiculously insane headlines.
It was not a fault of Times Now, they were just relying on their incompetent gossip-driven-sensationalistic people who create such masala headlines after Indian tours as sports journalists. Even a school kid would laugh if Semis are called First Real Test, but the ludicrous team took no time in calling it a humiliating flop show. Not only that, it also created Bollywood style narratives to target Virat Kohli by quoting pressure equilibrium reactions.
Interestingly, unlike other occasions, Times Now not only failed to create any sensation around this ridiculous hashtag, but they also faced sharp rebuttal from the social media. Social Media was quick to discard the #ShamedInSydney hashtag to #ShameOnTimesNow.
After we trend #ShameOnTimesNow , let us trend #ArnabIsADisgrace every day till he stops being such a sanctimonious prick
— The Bad Doctor (@doctoratlarge) March 26, 2015
So 6000 tweets on #ShameOnTimesNow in past half hour. Nation has answered. (Analysis Times Now style) — Scotchy Shashtri (@scotchism) March 26, 2015
Hire any 10 people from a small city, give them CRT TVs to break and say ‘Fans break TVs over poor performance’ #ShameOnTimesNow — Ripper (@Ace_Of_Pace) March 26, 2015
TimesNow – lowering the depth of being dumb everyday in everyway. #ShameOnTimesNow — Anupam Gupta (@b50) March 26, 2015
Dhoni hasn’t even seen his newborn yet cause of duty and @timesnow wants to was away all the sacrifices with a hashag. #ShameOnTimesNow — reviewero (@Reviewero) March 26, 2015
#ShameOnTimesNow is trending. Hope Arnab Goswami hosts The Newshour on this. — Rahul Roushan (@rahulroushan) March 26, 2015
Atul Wasan says live that he won’t be a part of it if the tone and tenor of the show continues. Anchor intimidates him. #ShameOnTimesNow — Rahul Roushan (@rahulroushan) March 26, 2015
This @TimesNow is criticizing the captain who got us the T20 world cup, Champions Trophy AND the 2011 World Cup. #ShameOnTimesNow — GRV (@MildlyClassic) March 26, 2015
Yesterday, I wrote a piece on my unexplained melancholy after the South Africa loss, but today I was shocked by the extreme stupidity of Times Now. Times Now has not only pulled down standards of journalism, but they have also replicated what Pakistan journos and anchors (Shoaib Akhtar) have been doing. It was not a jingoistic outrage, but an expected logical agitation against a media house which was defaming efforts and sentiments of many people to raise the TRP.
Hey @TimesNow, we fans outrage because we love our cricketers and we hate to lose. You outrage because you have an agenda. #ShameOnTimesNow
— Roflindian 2.0 (@Roflindian) March 26, 2015
