American XYZ

I did not watch the American Idol last year. But this time I decided to follow the competition and watch the show. We had a amazing show last Tuesday and the results were declared on Wednesday on Fox26. Usually the results run from 8-9pm followed by the news. So it happened this time that as soon as the results are declared and the show ended they started the news. And the first bit on the news was American Idol results. An entire feature on just the results.

Tells me two things. One that the show is very popular. But it also say about the quality of news on these channels. None of the local channels here give national news, leave international happenings. FOX might be a national channel, but they have local divisions who do their own news. So the Houston channel of Fox will do news from Houston and around. While it helps to know whats happening around, it has almost ZERO information value. The news may be from what happened in the Mayor's office, to crimes and sometimes as pathetic as neighbourhood incidents. Same story with the newspapers. 85% local news. I think this greatly clouds the general awareness of the public here.

Upcoming tours

Meeting long time friends is always exciting. So I have three such oppurtunities coming up. There is Rityas graduation. Then there is the Formula 1 meet. And then hopefully there will be the White house tour. I couldn't care less for anything else that comes up!