Everytime there is a huge disaster, natural or otherwise, the media has a field time. Media is simply doing their job; albeit a bit too much. After any one such incident, there are photos of the victims, in all their graphic glory splashed across most of the magazines/newspapers. It is indeed saddening to know of deaths and casualities from these incidents. But most of these photos are to a great extent, gory. And I talk from experience - the front page photo of the massacered victims of the Rajiv Gandhi assassination from the may 1991 India Today issue that is still imprinted in my brain. I was 9 years then - a bit precocious in my reading habits, picked up that issue as usual. And no thanks to my parents for this one. They thought absolutely nothing of their 9 year old reading anything and everything that she got her hands on. And after I did finish reading the whole issue, did I come across this warning that said "highly disturbing material. should be read with caution by children etc..".And everytime there are images of victims, this comes flashing to my mind. And makes me think if this could also be classified as a case of "yellow journalism", just to sell news. Just reading most of the reports makes readers` hearts go to the victims...dont know what the media is trying to achieve further..
And brickbats to Rajdeep sardesai after the Mumbai train blasts and his lines about the CNN-IBN telecasts being the first. They really sounded inappropriate considering the severity of the situation.
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