>*** Limelight is absolutely a misnomer. That salvo was meant for some groups trying to better each other to come to the limelight on issues giving them any mileage - not the media. Maybe they will take up important issues like this too.
I agree, the media is insensitive to the core and will publish anything for sensationalism and 'capturing' the market. The AT ought to have used senstivity. --Ram On 1/21/08, Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >But in this > >case, maybe, just maybe, it will wake up the Govt, and others who seem > >hell-bent to capture the limelight at the first opportunity. > > > *** Limelight is absolutely a misnomer. It demonstrates an utter lack > of sensitivity to blood and gore, a cultural void, which is not > unexpected from the most violent society on earth: India. > > I am glad it was a front page story. However it could have been dealt > with a bit of maturity that could be expected from civilized society. > > Perhaps my expectation is misplaced. > > > > > > > > > > At 8:02 AM -0600 1/21/08, Ram Sarangapani wrote: > >C'da, > > > >In India this journalistic discretion is absolutely different. > >Maybe Indian news media is going thru a phase, and such standards be > damned. > > > >Some examples: > >The Beltola incident - many newspapers & TV were not ashamed to show a > naked > >woman running around. > > > >In the tiger attack in the Guwahati Zoo, last month, it seems a number of > TV > >channels showed live footage. There was only one newspaper (The Hindu) > which > >said 'after a discussion with the editors', it was decided to publish > only a > >black & white photo, not color'. > > > >And now this gory & sickening photo of the unfortunate rhino. But in this > >case, maybe, just maybe, it will wake up the Govt, and others who seem > >hell-bent to capture the limelight at the first opportunity. > > > >--Ram > > > > > >On 1/21/08, Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >> I have never seen a newspaper with a modicum of journalistic > >> discretion publish something like this horrific picture on their > >> front page. > >> > >> > >> > >> >Oh my Country!!! > >> > >> *** Indeed! > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> At 6:02 PM +0530 1/21/08, mc mahant wrote: > >> >Manoj, > >> >When I opened the Tribune in the morning- I thought-the beast/s who > >> >did that needed to be castrated. Later on --more rational thoughts > >> >came. To teach every citizen/human how vivisection needs to be > >> >practised onto ones near and dear ones first. > >> >And more thoughts ---- > >> >I never opened the paper again . > >> >Oh my Country!!! > >> >Oh for the Indian Rupee! > >> >M'da> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:58:22 +0530> From: > >> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected]> Subject: [Assam] symbol > >> >of cruelty> > http://www.assamtribune.com/jan2108/Photo.html> > > >> >heart cries out to this wounded rhino at kaziranga national park.> > > >> >-manoj> _______________________________________________> assam > >> >mailing list> [email protected]> > >> >http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org > >> >_________________________________________________________________ > >> >Tried the new MSN Messenger? It's cool! Download now. > >> >http://messenger.msn.com/Download/Default.aspx?mkt=en-in > >> >_______________________________________________ > >> >assam mailing list > >> >[email protected] > >> >http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> assam mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org > >> > >_______________________________________________ > >assam mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org > > > _______________________________________________ > assam mailing list > [email protected] > http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org > _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
