[Assam] symbol of cruelty

[Ram Sarangapani]

>*** Limelight is absolutely a misnomer.

That salvo was meant for some groups trying to better each other to come to
the limelight on issues giving them any mileage - not the media. Maybe they
will take up important issues like this too.

I agree, the media is insensitive to the core and will publish anything for
sensationalism and 'capturing' the market. The AT ought to have used
senstivity.

--Ram



On 1/21/08, Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:
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> >  >But in this
> >case, maybe, just maybe, it will wake up the Govt, and others who seem
> >hell-bent to capture the limelight at the first opportunity.
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> *** Limelight is absolutely a misnomer. It demonstrates an utter lack
> of sensitivity to blood and gore, a cultural void, which is not
> unexpected from the most violent society on earth: India.
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> I am glad it was a front page story. However it could have been dealt
> with a bit of maturity that could be expected from civilized society.
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> Perhaps my expectation is misplaced.
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> At 8:02 AM -0600 1/21/08, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
> >C'da,
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> >In India this journalistic discretion is absolutely different.
> >Maybe Indian news media is going thru a phase, and such standards be
> damned.
> >
> >Some examples:
> >The Beltola incident - many newspapers & TV were not ashamed to show a
> naked
> >woman running around.
> >
> >In the tiger attack in the Guwahati Zoo, last month, it seems a number of
> TV
> >channels showed live footage. There was only one newspaper (The Hindu)
> which
> >said 'after a discussion with the editors', it was decided to publish
> only a
> >black & white photo, not color'.
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> >And now this gory & sickening photo of the unfortunate rhino. But in this
> >case, maybe, just maybe, it will wake up the Govt, and others who seem
> >hell-bent to capture the limelight at the first opportunity.
> >
> >--Ram
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> >On 1/21/08, Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:
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> >>  I have never seen a newspaper with a modicum of journalistic
> >>  discretion publish something like this horrific picture on their
> >>  front page.
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> >>  >Oh my Country!!!
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> >>  *** Indeed!
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> >>  At 6:02 PM +0530 1/21/08, mc mahant wrote:
> >>  >Manoj,
> >>  >When I opened the Tribune in the morning- I thought-the beast/s who
> >>  >did that needed to be castrated. Later on --more rational thoughts
> >>  >came. To teach   every citizen/human  how vivisection needs to be
> >>  >practised onto ones near and dear ones first.
> >>  >And more thoughts ----
> >>  >I never opened the paper again .
> >>  >Oh my Country!!!
> >>  >Oh for the Indian Rupee!
> >>  >M'da> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:58:22 +0530> From:
> >>  >dasmk2k at gmail.com> To: assam at assamnet.org> Subject: [Assam] symbol
> >>  >of cruelty> > http://www.assamtribune.com/jan2108/Photo.html> >
> >>  >heart cries out to this wounded rhino at kaziranga national park.> >
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