Comments on: How not to report terrorism http://interjunction.org/article/how-not-to-report-terrorism/ media meets academia: site on media-related issues: journalism, media ethics, history and responsibilities, media effects and globalisation, and journalism education Tue, 06 Jul 2010 06:41:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Srinivas Kompella http://interjunction.org/article/how-not-to-report-terrorism/#comment-3528 Srinivas Kompella Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:39:31 +0000 http://interjunction.org/article/how-not-to-report-terrorism/#comment-3528 When it comes to Breaking News, Indian TV journalists have no limits set for themselves. One of them was injured by the bullet fired by terrorists and while one another from a Hindi TV channel was ducking behind a security personnel endangering their lives. Some operations by the NSG Commandos must be kept secret as the terrorists watched them using their latest mobile phones (as reported in the media again). In the fight to get more TRPs (Television Rating Points), the truth is ignored. Indian TV journalism is more like opinion of the channel, the journalist covering the news and the grey cells of the anchor not necessarily in that order! One English news channel went after the southern state Chief Minister so much so that it sound that the anchor had personal vendatta against him! The news coverage was partial that none bothered about the victims of other places where the terrorists struck before they took so many hostages and killed them in cold blood. Anyways, I am happy that article came from one among them till a few years back. Warm regards, When it comes to Breaking News, Indian TV journalists have no limits set for themselves. One of them was injured by the bullet fired by terrorists and while one another from a Hindi TV channel was ducking behind a security personnel endangering their lives.

Some operations by the NSG Commandos must be kept secret as the terrorists watched them using their latest mobile phones (as reported in the media again).

In the fight to get more TRPs (Television Rating Points), the truth is ignored. Indian TV journalism is more like opinion of the channel, the journalist covering the news and the grey cells of the anchor not necessarily in that order!

One English news channel went after the southern state Chief Minister so much so that it sound that the anchor had personal vendatta against him!

The news coverage was partial that none bothered about the victims of other places where the terrorists struck before they took so many hostages and killed them in cold blood.

Anyways, I am happy that article came from one among them till a few years back.

Warm regards,

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