*INDIA'S INSENSITIVE ENGLISH ELECTRONIC MEDIA*
*India's English language Electronic Media -- at least TIMES NOW and NDTV --- have been grossly insensitive to people's feelings and even flaunting government's appeal to media to avoid all provocations that may trigger untowrd events in the country in the aftermath of Court Verdict on land dispute in Ayodhya that is expected to delivered Thursday, September 30, 2010 around 3.30 PM.* ** *TIMES NOW's Arnab has been notorious in provoking his panelists into coming out with biased and prejudiced views and even now while he is prefusely talks about media responsibility, his choice of panelists itself shows how he wants a certain point of view to prevail. He is terribly biased against Muslims and hardly bothers to bring in any mainstream Muslim panelists to enable them to put out their views and concern.* ** *NDTV has more responsible image; but the way Barkha Dutt has chosen to organise an interview with Salman Rushdie, and had been telecasting selected clips of that interview, shows how insensitive she has become to Muslim sentiments. In no way, Indian Muslims are fond of Salman Rushdie and Barkha Dutt's Salman Rushdie interview has proved to be most provacative. If she thinks by presenting views expressed by Rushdie she would browbeat Muslim opinion, she is fishing in troubled waters. Does she not know that the very image of Rushdie is like a red rag to enraged Muslims and they have not yet forgiven him for his 'Satanic Verses'. Her objective image is increasingly being eroded and unless she reviews where she is heading, her media moves will be most damaging to harmonious communal fabric.* ** *India's 150 million Muslims are not deaf and dumb and even though they are kept away from mainstream media coverage, the impact of Media's bias works as slow poison and is bound to further alienation from the mainstream.* ** *In the wake of the uncertainties in the public domain, media should urgently review their proformace and programming and take thoughtful steps not to deliberately or unadvertantly cause division and disaffection among communities.* *Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai* *[email protected]* *http://ghulammuhammed.blogspot.com* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
