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.
