given a choice between a serious political debate in the parliament, and a mongoose fighting a cat, majority will watch the mongoose fighting the cat - so the channel makes this choice on our behalf.
Anyway so yea quality of news channel is closer to sh!t. I would surf news channels one after another in search of some "good" quality news but all I get are craps, news which are "Always breaking", big banner ads, too much breaks, high tempo background music, Fast track 100 news (where each news is for 5 sec, wtf) and as already said above, monkeys fighting on national news.
I turn to some English news channel to find some value.. and end up with NDTV 24x7 which seems not bad compared to all sh!t hindi news throw. -_-