With artificial intelligence giving us such comprehensive answers to basic questions, and AI news anchors making debuts in some places, these could be warning signs for an impending performance pressure for our desi news anchors. And maybe that won’t be a bad thing after all – consider the frenzied ‘news debates’ on George Soros over the weekend.
The billionaire hedge fund investor was in the eye of a political storm in India with his comments on the Narendra Modi government and the Adani Group. Predictably enough, a large section of TV media has chose to follow the government’s line about the billionaire’s remarks being an “attack on India” and took it a notch up – Soros, BBC, Hindenburg were described as part of an international ‘tukde tukde’ gang with local support from who else but those damned Indian liberals and Opposition parties.
