There is a talk on how
incompetent and irresponsible politicians are, there is definitely much truth to
it. Instead of being sensitive to the problems, the Chief Minister was found
stressing on GDP, and making amazingly irresponsible statements. One cannot
really blame him we have a GDP Prime Minister. How long
this nonsense?.
Everybody surely loves a tragedy,
except ofcourse the victim. Victims are part of karma, so let’s not bother much
about them. Market media, politicians, NGO’s with high ambitions -environmentalists
with a keen eye on perks, role playing saviors, social climbers of all varieties relish these
opportunities. If politicians were doing aerial surveys or making statements/counter
statements to capitalize on the tragedy, the media was not far behind. They
paratrooped in horde, many were giving reports from the helicopters carrying
victims, incidentally in cramped conditions. O we love to see media hovering on
victims inside hovering helicopter, such TRP busting sight, it even rhymes. How much did media handicap
the rescue operations will never be clear. I
am not denying that some in media did tremendous and genuine job, but that is
just some and essentially those who are from the region, who understands and empathize. Why is that channels doesn’t
have correspondents in these places, people who understand the place and
people. The reporter must be from the region or has spent years understanding
the place or else recruit from local channels on an immediate ad hoc basis
during moments of crisis. What you have is attention seekers masquerading as
journalist crash landing, it’s amazing that people living all their life in
north India cannot even speak proper hindi, and they are journalists!! Any
english speaking good looking victims here, please raise your goddamn hand? We want some byte. The
audacity to impose oneself on people, who are undergoing serious tribulations
and unimaginable personal loss, the insensitivity of it. It speaks of lack of
competence and concern, it smacks of arrogance.
One journalist even found the time to answer how she was able to
undertake these arduous activities. She was humbleness personified and said
coyly “it is that extra hour spent in the gym”.
As Crude Woman says “every opportunity has to be sucked”, ZK Bazz nods
and add “Brandz buildingz nahi tho life meh kuch bhi nahi hai he mere bhai”.
This report in BBC that you are
unlikely to read or see in free Indian media, its called self regulation!!Its a metaphor turned into reality...
India floods:
Scandal video reporter sacked
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An Indian television journalist who
reported on deadly floods while sitting on the shoulders of a survivor has been
sacked, says the channel he worked for.
The reporter had been widely
criticised after the video appeared online.
A News Express statement called his
behaviour "inhuman". The channel says it did not broadcast the
footage and does not know who uploaded it.
More than 800 people have died in
floods and landslides which swept parts of northern India 10 days ago.
Video of Narayan Pargaien reporting fromUttarakhand
state, which has borne the brunt of the disaster, has been viewed thousands of
times online. In it he perches on the shoulders of
a man who is standing in flood waters, while the reporter delivers a piece to
camera.
News Express said Mr Pargaien was
guilty of "grave misconduct". What he had done was "not just
inhuman but was also against the culture" of the channel, it said in a
statement.
"You cannot ride on someone's
back for a story. We terminated him on Tuesday," Nishant Chaturvedi, the
head of the channel, told AFP news agency.
'We were helping' Mr Pargaien had earlier sought to
explain his actions, telling Indian media website newslaundry.com that the
villager had asked him to report on the damage the floods had caused to his
home.
"We helped him with some food
and some money and he was grateful to us and wanted to show me some respect, as
it was the first time someone of my level had visited his house," the
reporter said.
"People are talking about us
being inhuman and wrong - but we were actually helping some of the victims
there."
Mr Pargaien accepted what he had
done had been wrong - but seemed keener to pin the blame on his cameraman.
"The report was supposed to be
telecast only with footage of me chest-up. This was entirely the cameraman's
fault."
That prompted some to suggest he
still had more to learn about journalistic ethics and where to draw the line.
