Adnan Patrawala, a teenager, was abducted. His abductors demanded a ransom of 2 crores.
The victim, Adnan Patrawala, left home in a Skoda at 11 pm on Saturday after he received a call from a friend. “Adnan told his family that he was going to meet some friends. After a while, Adnan called up his residence and said he was playing pool and would return in the morning. But at 10 am on Sunday, the Patrawalas received a call from an unidentified person who claimed to have abducted the boy and demanded Rs 2 crore for his release,” said a police officer.
And then he was killed. And media is blaming orkut. AND I OBJECT TO IT.
Media is pointing fingers at a profile on orkut, Angel, as she was known previously. She is being accused of luring Adnan to meet her somewhere. I really can’t confirm this as it is upto the police to verify. If you are a regular user of orkut then you would appreciate that fact that orkut is a den of despos, obviously men looking for females. Profile of females are flooded with ‘hi, wanna be friends’ scrap. Friendship day is like eid/diwali for orkut users as it throws an opportunity to make oneself acquainted with new females with those beautifully decorated scraps. So this was nothing ‘out of the box’.
So why is media pointing all the blame on orkut? Well to obviously shift the blame. If you have followed the news closely then you would have noticed that Adnan’s abductors killed him because of the hoopla by the media. The arrested abductors have confirmed that they strangulated Adnan out of fear of getting caught because the media knows about this. So who is the real culprit? Obviously the abductors but media is also partly to blame. Sensible reporting is something media personnel should get accustomed to. They should realise the gravity of the situation and refrain from reporting if it could harm the concerned party.
Saying all these, I am not very hopeful of media realising this. Our media turns someone into a hero based on single good performance and also reduces someone to ground based on single bad performance.
Team India ne Indian ki naat katwaye (Team India humiliates India)
Star News screamed. But it’s the same team India which won the test series in England. Even though,according to media, Dravid was the villain of the win for his coward decision not to force follow on in the 3rd test, India did give us lot to cheer about.
Anyways I can only hope that media learns by these mistakes and the particularly the lower end news channels.
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Media should act as a public vigilance; it cannot be reckless or offensive. Hostile reporting, Invasion and judgments should be avoided, media has to inform and educate, and sometimes we see them overstepping the boundaries.
It’s not that good work in not being done but a collective madness towards TRPs is something very scary.
dont we remember The Mikka-Rakhi kiss brawl finally had a happy ending. Rakhi threw some tantrums but finally the defining moment did come. Rakhi’s mom kissed Mikka and Rakhi on the forehead as mikka sang for someone whom he had forcefully kissed at his birthday bash. It was all so well staged on a TV Show Jeena isis kaa naam hai in which Mikka makes a surprise entry. I just couldn’t help applauding the two for their brilliant performance for almost one year.
One just could not forget those endless fights broadcast live by almost all Hindi News Channels. Only NDTV India was the exception. Perhaps credibility comes way behind instant eye balls for most of the 24 hours news channels. One just couldn’t help remembering that ‘honest’ attempt by India TV in which the anchor tried to broker peace live on the channel.
The question as to should the media be covering the kiss brawl, the way it was done was hotly debated after the incident. And this was precisely what the editors took to defend themselves. “We are talking about it, it means it has caught the public imagination” was the argument thrown. Also there were many saying it was a question of a women’s dignity, how could Mikka force himself on poor Rakhi?
So what was this all about?
Mikka needed publicity, Rakhi needed something to boost her career, the media needed the TRPs and all three combined together to fool the person who stopped to listen to them. You can’t blame Mikka and Rakhi, they are entertainers. Rakhi playing stunts like this one is ok but what about the media?
Another incident was of Jhanvi . she would nt have gone to Pratiksha the day after Abhishek married Aishvarya had the TV cameras desisted from accompanying her.
media should not treat the viewer as a fool.
Some mechanism should be decided .its high time
Shehla,
I have nothing against the media in general. I just want them to be responsible, particularly the lower end news channels. You have correctly pointed out the various incidents which could have been avoided. But then you do need controversies to generate interest and hence money
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