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How interested are you in knowing what Arpita Khan's new love-nest look like?

Journalism lessons 101: Media works in the public interest. News is something which is relatively significant to all of us. Apart from being an industry, journalism is also a social responsibility. Now let’s put everything away and answer a simple question, “ How interested are you in knowing what Arpita Khan's new love-nest look like ?” Picture strictly used for Thumbnail Purposes  What is sad here is that, many of us wouldn’t actually mind clicking on the link that leads to one Twitter picture, broadly circulated as their ‘love-nest’. I am sure hundreds of likeminded like us would agree upon the fact that such news serves no public interest, but rather exploits to public curiosity. Social Media parasites would agree to the fact that our current breed of Indian websites are so very inspired by Daily Mail UK that they exactly copy (read: reproduce using copy left)  their stories and publish it in India. I certainly don’t understand how news story ...