[icernet] Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall...

[Arul Selvan]

  Prime time in news channels is dominated by men in their prime even if 
they are balding, greying and gaining weight while women journalists who 
can match them in experience, expertise and age are nowhere in the 
picture. For all the 30-something women who are getting older by the day 
(men, it seems, do not age as fast on news channels), it is not exactly 
boom time, even as half-a-dozen news channels wait to take off in a 
months time.

The BBC has a fair share of the young and the old, and as one of its 
programme head says, Our criterion for the selection of our presenters 
and correspondents is not specific to their age. BBC World looks for 
top-class journalists with a great deal of expertise and experience and 
this takes time to acquire. But Indian news television channels, it 
seems, are indifferent and untouched by such concerns, as the 
soon-to-be-launched news channels begin their frenetic hunt for girlish, 
bright-eyed, contestants.

Source:
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=18062