Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Every one is from same pond

Recently I read Barga Dutt's article in NDTV site in reply to the critics about " Irresponsible Mumbai Terror Coverage by Media" arised by some people. In that article, Dutt defend her news team by saying that " Not available dos and dont rule list for Media coverage" and quoting some emotional things. After reading that article, I had some comments against her view so I went on to post the below.
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/mumbaiterrorstrike/Story.aspx?ID=COLEN20080075194&type=opinion

Really good work done by the NDTV team. But some posted critics have some valid points.
1. There is much difference between the "what was happened" and "what is going to happen". The marine commanders told in that interview about what was happened inside the Taj and what they did . The news abt " NSG is going for Final assault", " NSG going to storm" and the position and whereabouts of commandos are nothing going to help the people and NSGs. It would have led to suffer of the NSGs and might helped the terrorists. Terrorists would have prepared for the assault. During the interview marcos were within their limits but media was not during their telecast of the attack. Consider this, what if the terrorist had seen ur broadcast and knew about the NSG going to storm and prepared his position well?. What would help for country either " the unknown attack" or "Known attack"? This is not a cricket match or any good event for the minute by minute update of what is going to happen and what is happening. Such telecast at the most misfortune time would have cost a life of our heroes.
2. Your excuse about the "do's and don'ts" list are much sounds like our politician excuse. Definitely brilliant reporters like u may know other countries(like Israel) media rules and behavior during this type of attacks. Even common man like me worried about the minute by minute media reports didn't any of your media teams think of that?. And you took a excuse by "not breaking rules". What would be your news report for "Corruption by not breaking the rules"? Would u accept that?.

I submitted the comment but it requires approval of moderator for publication. So I waited for some time though it never happened. And a fact that most of the comments for that article are mostly positive and appreciating the effort done by the NDTV and other posts were mildly negative.

I got frustrated about the rejection as the comments is not written in abusive language and I just pointed out some points against her view. It leads to some serious questions about the media and their behavior.
  • This is a small comment and it would not be noticed by many people. Are they want to stubborn in their point by hiding the critics even if it is noted by small number of people?
  • Are they trying to impose their views to us by hiding their opposite views?
  • How the hell these people wants openness from the politician?
  • How extend their news would not be aggregated for "Media Publicity"?
  • How much credibility does their news have?
  • What about the other channels when quality of the most reliable news channel in this country is like this?
One thing is very clear everyone has 0% tolerance for their critics invariably.

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