Who is going to take cognisance of this?
1. An MMS of a 10-year-old girl (do I need to write what kind of MMS) was in circulation in some North Indian cities and Sahara picked it up even going to the extent of showing the clip along with the news. Though they had blurred the images, it was quite evident what the poor girl was made to do. The psychologist was also on panel and enlightening us that 'demand of such fantasies exist and so is this clip there'.
2. A video-album shows a six-year-old boy taking a peek under a dancer's skirt and look at the tattoe on her thigh. Now the album director, the dancer (dancer, item girl or model, whatever she is) and the child are brought in the studio of Star TV and the ERUDITE Shazia Ji asks them about the rights and wrongs.
The morality lecture continues with a psychologist/psychiatrist some Machiswala in the panel. But then the anchor Shazia suddenly directs attention towards the poor boy and asks him....Tell what you were asked to do (He was the son of Album director so he hadn't used any other person's kid)...and the boy kept mum but she persisted...
It was brazen shamelessness. How dare they could do that? It was all fixed I guess. The album director and model got good publicity and thus came readily to the studio but just what Star News wanted to achieve? TRP, ok but why exploit the poor kid?
No body was bothered, still. The Commissions (Human, Women, Minority and all) are useless, after all their members want publicity as well and won't act. Wish some maverick judge would act...
Friday, July 21, 2006
Monday, July 17, 2006
Unfair reporting: Shiv Sena's Saamna & role of some dailies

When all Mumbai residents irrespective of caste and creed come out agains terrorism, all of them bear the brunt and then stand united, a few Hindi and Marathi dailies lowered the dignity of journalism.
The headlines of Saamna like 'Islami Qahar' and particularly 'Intelligence raha Fail, Minye kar gaye Khel' could be described as nothing short of poisonous (Minya is slang or local term to describe Muslims thus 'minye'). We all saw hundreds of Muslims donating blood and comint out in processions against terrorism. Those dead and those in solidarity with victims were also Muslims, such provacative headlines are a shame.
Samna, a Shiv Sena mouthpiece could have done better. However, I was surprised that nobody in media circules noticed such poor journalism (Is it journalism at all?). The headlines in Samana like 'Maharashtra bana Islami aatank ka godaam' left a bad taste. All headlines can't be mentioned but editorials and news coverage in English, Hindi, Urdu, Marathi and Gujarati papers of Mumbai were quite sensible. But the authorities and Press Council should take notice of this Reporting also.
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