The general insensitivity with which the massacre of 12 tribals in Jajpur was treated in the national media once again shows the callouness of urban-based media towards the poor.
Just because they were tribals, poor and the incident happened in Jajpur there was hardly any condemnation. Had a few university/college students injured in police firing it would have led to outrage.
Alas these tribals have no one to espouse their cause, no relatives who study in IITs, IIMs who can mobilise popular opinion of the upper/middle class or create a tsuanmi in blogosphere like in the case of Manjunath, who sadly died while fighting corruption. In no way it is belittling the death of Manjunath or any other upright official.
Just the fact that tribals are on the extreme margins of the state and more so, Media.
The administration had reportedly chopped off their hands allegedly so that they could be used for future identification! They could no take fingerprints, photo copies. Surprisingly, this crime of colossal magnitude has been downplayed by the media.
These tribals were left with no dreams in this Indian state where software companies and BPOs set the standards of morality, truth and liberty. The rape of a call centre girl leads to havoc in Indian media but this barbaric crime just passes off as atrocities on natives during the British Raj.
I am not saying that Media is biased against poor, it is just over concerned about TRPs and too obsessed with Bollywood, cricket, politics, fashion and partying people to show this face of the state to the people. Remember the very police that ought to defend its people fired at the tribals killing 12 in cold blood.
Friday, January 06, 2006
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Popular Posts
-
Thirteenth September, Aajtak's Blunder Just when the story of the bomb blasts in Delhi was unfolding, self-styled 'best news channe...
-
Cutting short the guests has become Rajdeep Sardesai's forte. And it is now very very irritating. Everyday these CNN IBN guys collec...
-
Pramod Mahajan was in the hospital. His brother Praveen pumped bullets in his stomach from point blank range. But several hours after he was...
-
Senior journalist Punya Prasoon Bajpai has expressed regret over the manner in which Ishrat Jahan was termed a terrorist in the media. He ha...
-
Journalism has been in crisis and the credibility of journalists is increasingly under scanner because of the bad apples. The question...
-
It may appear too hasty to call it a competition but given the short history of Indian television news channels and the lack of competition ...
-
Most news channels have their head offices in Noida but failed to see the trend of missing children and could not report the disappearance o...
-
It was a news no newspaper could have missed. The chief of state police using the name of a businessman as his son's grandfather to get ...
-
Jayati Ghosh has written a masterful piece 'The mosquito is a great leveller' published in Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle. In dr...
-
A website has become a forum for raising media-related issues in India, especially the Hindi print and electronic media. No longer can a new...
Labels
Media
(15)
Journalism
(12)
Biased journalism
(9)
Irresponsible Media
(8)
Arnab Goswami
(7)
Biased Media
(7)
Indian Express
(6)
Indian Media
(6)
Media Hysteria
(6)
Dainik Bhaskar
(5)
Unethical journalism
(5)
Aaj Tak
(4)
Hindustan Times
(4)
Journalists
(4)
Magazines
(4)
TV Channels
(4)
English newspapers
(3)
False reporting
(3)
Hindi Media
(3)
Hindi TV channels
(3)
India Today
(3)
Indian journalism
(3)
Sting Operation
(3)
Superstitious Media
(3)
Terrorism
(3)
Times Now
(3)
Zee TV
(3)
BJP
(2)
Biased journalists
(2)
Dainik Jagran
(2)
Deepak Chaurasia
(2)
HT
(2)
HT Vs TOI
(2)
Media Blunders
(2)
Media watchdog
(2)
Media's Failures
(2)
Sudhir Chaudhary
(2)
Tehelka
(2)
Times of India
(2)
Zee News
(2)
ABP News
(1)
Abhisar Sharma
(1)
Amir Khan
(1)
Ashok Singhal
(1)
Barkha Dutt
(1)
Bhadas4Media
(1)
Bizarre journalism
(1)
Bloggers
(1)
Bollywood
(1)
Business Standard
(1)
Cameramen
(1)
Casteism
(1)
Chaitanya Kalbag
(1)
Chanda Kochhar
(1)
Communal riot
(1)
Controversies
(1)
DB Grouup
(1)
DNA
(1)
Deepak Sharma
(1)
Editor
(1)
Electronic Media
(1)
Encounter
(1)
Extra-judicial killings
(1)
Extremism
(1)
Fake encounters
(1)
HR policies
(1)
Hindi Journalism
(1)
Hindi TV Channel
(1)
Hindi newspaper
(1)
Hindu Terrorism
(1)
Hindustan
(1)
IBN 7
(1)
India TV
(1)
Indian Express Idea Exchange
(1)
Journalism Hall of Shame
(1)
Journalistic ethics
(1)
MJ Akbar
(1)
Majithia wage board
(1)
Managers-editors nexus
(1)
Media Obsessions
(1)
Media and Terrrorism
(1)
Muslim Terrorism
(1)
Nai Duniya
(1)
Nandan Nilekani
(1)
Naxalites
(1)
News channels
(1)
News channels.
(1)
Newspaper War
(1)
Newspapers
(1)
Obituary
(1)
Obscene advertisement
(1)
Obscenity
(1)
Operation Lajja
(1)
Pakistan election 2013
(1)
Photographers
(1)
Praveen Swami
(1)
Print media
(1)
Punya Prasun Vajpayee
(1)
Qamar Waheed Naqvi
(1)
Questionable journalism
(1)
Right-wing media
(1)
Right-wing websites
(1)
Saffron Terrorism
(1)
Sex Scandal
(1)
Sexual harassment in media
(1)
Sexuality
(1)
Socialites
(1)
Subhash Chanda
(1)
Suhel Seth
(1)
Sunday Newspapers
(1)
Swarajya Magazine
(1)
TV channel
(1)
The Hindu
(1)
The Week
(1)
Uday Shankar
(1)
Unethical reporting
(1)
No comments:
Post a Comment