28 News channels

I remember the time when we used to watch DD1 and my dad would wait for the 8 pm news and we used to get the news of national and international relevence. And now we have 28 channels and the demarcation between news and rubbish is getting bleeker by the day. Israel is bombing Lebanon , nearly 500 are dead and over 1500 injured but our new channels are busy covering the escapades of two sahara airlines airhostesses driving their VIP number hyundai sonata to the PM's residence. Its really sad what is happening to our media these days. I think their priorities are more than just screwed up.
   The other day I was surfing through the channels and Star News was showing the recap of all the recaps of their shitty saas bahu soaps, so that if one has missed a few episodes they can get synced with the story line ( If they have a story line ;-)  ) .
   I am not saying that media coverage of everything has all the minus points . The deep penetration of media has benefited the society in my ways. Now even petty crimes like wife beating or bicycle theft are taken seriously by the authorities because they know if they wont take action then "channel 7" or "aajtak" or "zee news" or "Times now" will... If the media were not that active Delhi police wouldnt have ever reopened the Jessica Lal case , CBI would have never thought of opening the Priyadarshini Mattu case, we wouldnt have seen so many sting operations ( some of them were really entertaining )...
In the end it comes down to the question "Is India happening enough to feed 28 News channels? "