Privy

NDTV was always better than the rest of the news media, until recently, but now as a part of commercialization perhaps, has joined the crowd. I can recall atleast two instances today while watching the Mumbai attacks coverage, where I really cursed NDTV and switched to Times Now.

They were showing the scenes of rescuees coming out of Oberoi and the media people trying desperately to get a word out of them. Immediately, the correspondent communicates by the phone and says “we tried to chase down the rescued people (a tone of confidence), however they were not willing to talk us (a tone of complaining) …”

Then they carried out a statement by an army chief in which he refused to give the count of casualties in the army, for obvious reasons of maintaining the morale. However, this channel reports “NSG casualty count unestimable…”

Similar thing had happened on Times Now, but the news anchor Arnab  politely advised restrain to the correspondent and the camera man. Times Now, today is the most responsible news channel (still they could improve) among the lot. I never ever switched to Aaj Tak or India TV who are glorifying the terrorist by carrying out his interview.

It looks like our cities are becoming an easy target of the terrorists. In these times where news spreads faster than light, I somehow missed this one, while watching India tame England again in the 5th ODI. I only came to know about it this morning, after I had just finished watching the movie “Shoot on sight“.

It felt like an extension to the movie and it took me some time to sink in the news. I am planning to move to Mumbai in a couple of months from Bangalore and now this has happened. But, the city is very strong and I am sure most people would be still worrying more about the stock market being closed.

The terrorists have declared a war on MY country and it is high time WE respond as a nation. After the last round of serial blasts, it felt as if the country has pulled up its sleeves to control the terrorist activities, only to see this happening.

But, most likely we will get up again and forget this ever happened, as we have a very short term memory. While this is good for the general public, behind the scenes the vigil needs to be maintained and our network be made so secure that we are always a step ahead of these cowards, mislead souls who do not understand Islam, but are out there to preach others.