Yesteday morning, headlining DNA India, in big bold letters..

SAIF ALI KHAN SUFFERS HEART ATTACK.

After about half an hour, walking towards Chembur Station, I noticed a copy of Mid-Day in one of the stalls. Again, headlining..

SAIF HAD CHEST PAIN, NOT HEART ATTACK.

It was refreshing to see that the other newspapers carried a small snippet of this incident, though I really did not bother to scrounge through inside.

The point being, why cant there be a consensus on whats happened to him? Agreed, both the above mentioned newspapers are tabloids, though I may be a little too judgemental here. I had this discussion with a journalist friend of mine, about why such news makes the headlines, and she seemed to say, that is what people want to read. So, now, people want to read, in the span of half an hour, two completely contradictory facts?

Give us news people, real news. Stuff that has actually happened in the domain of reality. I know its too much to expect media not to sensationalise facts like how prostitution is rife in India, tothe falling in the well of some random kid in a remote village in timbuktoo, who apparently is God’s own child, but the fact is, it was REAL.

I’m, not even going to start analysing what the TV media was questioning people as they came out of Lilavati hospital, after meeting Saif..

“Andar kaun kaun the? (Who was there inside?)”

Brilliant. A whole new meaning to “Right to Information”

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