So a few days ago in Tirunelveli,Tamil Nadu, a police officer lay battling for life after being hacked by certain bad elements of the society. It was played out on all Indian Media channels and most of you would have come across it. To sum it up. Vetrivel the police officer was knifed,bombed and hacked by certain unlawful elements and he was lying down in a pool of his own blood. The dear Dravidian Party ministers and their cahoots arrived at the spot just in time. The dear ministers were just plain afraid to even get out because there was a bomb threat? (What a joke!!). Ok the others like the secretary were also afraid. The cop begs for water, pleads for help. Not even one single person is ready to take the dying man and give him treatment. Instead the ministers call the Ambulance and by the time the ambulance arrives, the hero has bled to death. Now the questions raised by the media were very accurate. Let me put it up for you :
1)Could the ministers allow such a thing to happen? If the situation was reversed wouldn't the cop be helping the ministers out without any fear to his own life?
2) When somebody begs for water what would you do? In particular if the person in need of the elixir is actually dying. The disgusting scene of the secretary pouring the water on Vetrivel's head was shown. How untouchable is that man? Aren't the elected members from the same Dravidian party movement that years ago fought for eradication of that evil?.
Ok now for the pertinent point. The entire thing was captured on Television!! So what was the media doing? Can't the politician ask back? If the politician could not help the person, why not the Media in particular the cameraman, instead of filming the event go and help the dying person? Where were the morals of the great Indian Media? They were happy to point fingers on the politicians, whereas they weren't ready to clean their own mess. Ohh all the news channels played it again and again. Disgusting to say the least. In all a life was lost. That life would be insignificant in the World's Grand scheme of things, but would remain a lamp that just faded away instead of lighting up the house it was required to. I for one hate the so called Indian Media Boom.
2 comments:
if the media had helped, how'd they get their story? ;)
@shradha : True they won't get their story and that's the irony. The incident did leave a bad mark on our media. I really hope people see through them
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