An obituary to my getting a job at Mc Cann

I know I am reducing all my chances of getting into McCann by blogging about this. But what were Prasoon Joshi and Gerson da cunha doing on NDTV. Who wants to know about their association with the luxury hotel while the crisis is still going on.
Why can't we instead get experts to talk about national security, intelligence, politics, pakistan. What have advertising professionals got to do about this terror attack.
And if they were called in just as Mumbaikars then their opinion should be limited to just that topic.
With this post, i bid an audieu to my chances of ever getting a job at Mc Cann...

Maximum City, Maximum Eyeballs

Date:27 Nov, 2008
Time: 11.00 pm

The headline on one of my favourite news channel read, "India is with you, Mumbai." Sure,the kind of mayhem that has struck the Maximum City, every Indian's heart goes out to those trapped inside the two hotels. Everyone is with Mumbai, except of course our politicians and very shockingly the media.

News channels were showing live footage of army and NSG commandos taking position outside Oberoi in the morning. Some influential journos gathered news from their sources on the exact moves and POA of the NSG and they were shouting it out LIVE on national TV.

So here's our national security, compromised for the greed of grabbing a few more eyeballs. Lives of our dedicated, army, NSG, RAF risked for TRPs.

But of course, this was balanced out. They also covered extensively the deaths of ATS chief and the top encounter cop of mumbai and the grief of their family members.