Breaking news: Film star spouts sense!

I can't believe I'm actually blogging this, but here goes:

Read Aamir Khan's interview with Tehelka at:
http://www.tehelka.com/story_main17.asp?filename=hub040106Mainstream_CS.asp

(With these kind of links I'm never sure if the link will be valid a few weeks from now: I distrust stuff that ends in .asp)

Here's a celebrity who is giving a sensible interview and an intelligent one and is making a point that urgently needs to be made but which no one else seems to care about: the media in India is going to the dogs. Consumerist running dogs.

Okay, I like dogs, so let's rephrase that: the media in India is down in the garbage dump.

My pet fetish is, of course, the quality of writing, or rather the lack thereof; but even if one was to excuse the appalling grammar, spastic punctuation and ludicrous spelling mistakes, the actual content of 90% of today's newspapers and tv channels is pure drivel.

It's the sort of stuff no self-respecting cat would want to bring home. If fish-and-chips shops attempted to wrap their offerings in these newspapers, the fish would jump back in the water, batter and all, and the chips would re-assemble themselves into potatoes and roll away. I am sometimes tempted to apologise to my tv set for subjecting it to such vapid tripe.

Mr Khan has risen in my esteem considerably for speaking sense and speaking it well.