When media distorts facts to manufacture news The series of explosions that rocked the Tripura capital on October 1 spread fear psychosis among the people of Northeast, but at the same time the incident ignited them to get united against terrorism. How ever the citizens remained unhappy at the way, the media covered the act of terrorism with distorted facts. Though the local media did justice while covering the incident, where there was no casualty, the international news agency tried to exploit the situation to manufacture sexy news. In fact, the agencies like AP, Bloomberg, Reuters, AFP, AHN, UPI, IANS and ANI grabbed the opportunity to put the news in such a way that the readers (audience) around the world get convinced that the series of blasts in Agartala killed at least 2 persons. And that way they only helped the terrorists to get the extra dividend out of a condemned act. For more log on C:\Documents and Settings\Nava\Desktop\The Seoul Times.htm

