[Assam] [asom] Bihar is suffering due to flood:- Assam always suffers (Yearly festival!!!)

muktikam phukan muktikamp at yahoo.co.in
Mon Sep 8 21:16:24 PDT 2008


the serious insurgency discourages News Channels to keep a full time reporter for Assam/ NE. 
 1. Seious insurgency - last few weeks we are seeing live images from kashmir showing their protests etc. So there are FULL TIME reporters in Kashmir also.
2. Is the insurgency in Assam now more serious than the Maoists of MAINLAND India? But there seems to be no dearth of FULL TIME reporters in these mainland areas for the TV channels.
3. Floods in Bihar are really serious. It needs National intervention. But why Bihar only? It should happen for every part? Whether Mainland, heartland, tail or NE. But surprisingly, not a single MAINLAND channel is uttering even a single word about sixteen districts and more than 20 lakh people being affected right now besides whats happening in Bihar. ISN"T that surprising?

Maybe Madam, your observation needs further observation to shed superficiality.




Muktikam Phukan 
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--- On Mon, 8/9/08, Swati <swati_sips at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Swati <swati_sips at yahoo.com>
Subject: [asom] Bihar is suffering due to flood:- Assam always suffers (Yearly festival!!!)
To: assamonline at yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, 8 September, 2008, 2:37 PM






Any problem is a problem irrespective of the place of origin.
You claim that as people from Bihar are in Media that's why their news got covered, but the truth is it came into headlines much after. My brother -in-law is working on one of the irrigation projects and he informed about the flood approx a month before it was being telecast on TV.
The Dam breaking down was the major havoc causing in Bihar.

And I don't think that media is biased towards Assam, the serious insurgency discourages News Channels to keep a full time reporter for Assam/ NE. Very few TV channels have a proper reporter posted there. I've observed this. 
Good thing about media is that they will broadcast, only hitch is that they should receive the news on time.

Further, I'll like to request all to stop thinking Biased, 'coz if you check the list of states in accordance to corruption, Both Bihar and Assam are close to each other. 
Try to see the larger picture, 'coz after centuries, when Earth will melt due to increasing Global Warming, it won't differentiate between Assam, Bihar, Maharashtra or any other place.

Be a Global Citizen too, 
Regards,
Swati
Mumbai

--- On Sun, 7/9/08, kuladip baro <kuladipbaro@ yahoo.com> wrote:

From: kuladip baro <kuladipbaro@ yahoo.com>
Subject: [asom] Bihar is suffering due to flood:- Assam always suffers (Yearly festival!!!)
To: assamonline@ yahoogroups. com
Date: Sunday, 7 September, 2008, 12:02 AM

"Flood in Bihar is in national/Internatio nal focus:- many people from media in India are from Bihar??? "

True. The situation in Bihar was highlighted unproportionately much more in Hindi News channels while Assam's situation was overlooked. Though it is unfair you can't help. All the people are selfish more or less naturaly.

We need some national media (TV channels, News papers in Hindi & English) widely circulated/seen in India/abroad, predominently manned by Native Assamese, if we have to highlight our problems (Flood, Bangladeshi etc.) properly since NETV and Newslive are only meant for the region only.

Assamese competant enterprising people may think on the above line.

-Kuladip
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