Bodo vs Bangladeshi

[G.Subramaniam]

My crew was also beaten up by the police and the protestors but we didn’t take the ‘our crew is in danger’ angle for the story, like some other media channels. It was only after 40 minutes that we started raising questions and our reporters have since been investigating why it happened. We also showed the video of the Commissioner scolding the DCP in public for arresting a rioter.

For around 15 days before the riot, Muslim communities had been calling us on our landline. It has never happened before. They were asking us why we weren’t showing images of the Assam riots. They were calling us because they feel we are secular and would show it. We told them that there was no independent verification of those images. The Muslim community wanted information which the mainstream media wasn’t providing. It was also wrong on the part of the Urdu press to have shown the images without verification”. - above url