Big Bang and The world coming to an End

I am generally reasonably well informed. I mean I might not know the present price of potatoes in Burkina Fasso but am aware of who Sarah Palin is and where Singur is. So it came as a big surprise to me when I reached office yesterday afternoon to be told that tomorrow is Apocalypse.
It seems there is this mega experiment happening as per Reuters which will enact the start of the universe and so there will be a black hole which will suck everything. It seemed straight out of India TV, Aaj Tak or IBN7.
That brought us all to discussing about how the standards of news has fallen. Every other day the Breaking News is about How demons have come, Chudails in a village and commissioner ka kutta gum.
In this case at least there is some scientific stuff happening and so the genesis of the story but what is the base of all these stupid stories which pass of as news. Who is responsible? who can the public look up to when the 'venerable' Rajedeep Sardesais channel carry such trash.