12-07-2008, 11:27 PM
<b>Between breaks for ads, TV hawked fear </b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->We still donât know the names of those dead except the family of the one that was brought on the Barkha Dutt show, We the People, and she ruthlessly kept goading him to tell the story even when the man could not talk. Then came her fake sympathy and she moved on to the next byte.
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What no one admits is that the fault is ours, we screwed up, our defence was unprepared and there was lapses in the intelligence. Instead of having breaking news and trying to outdo each other, the media can be effectively used to make forums, talking about reforms that we seek, use it to give confidence to peo ple, keep them motivated and make them believe that they have the power to change things around.
Instead of being the mouthpiece of the politicians, go to the people, stop playing those sad Bollywood numbers behind your news stories. And please for sanity sake, somebody send Barkha Dutt to outer space. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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What no one admits is that the fault is ours, we screwed up, our defence was unprepared and there was lapses in the intelligence. Instead of having breaking news and trying to outdo each other, the media can be effectively used to make forums, talking about reforms that we seek, use it to give confidence to peo ple, keep them motivated and make them believe that they have the power to change things around.
Instead of being the mouthpiece of the politicians, go to the people, stop playing those sad Bollywood numbers behind your news stories. And please for sanity sake, somebody send Barkha Dutt to outer space. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->