Children take media to task on tsunami coverage
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
Posted online: Friday, February 11, 2005 at 1547 hours IST
NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 11: It was an interaction with a
difference as children held media persons in the dock over the
coverage of issues related to their counterparts affected by tsunami.
Members of Bal Panchayat, a forum for children's
self-expression, today said issues of children affected by tsunami
were not being given adequate importance by the media.
Presenting their reports here after a media scanning exercise,
where they analysed the coverage of children's issues by major
English and Hindi newspapers over a period of two-weeks in the
aftermath of tsunami, they said issues of malnutrition and counseling
of children were not being highlighted enough.
"In the newspaper I scanned, out of the 58 items on tsunami
only 13 related to children. I could hardly find news items relating
to nutrition, trauma care as well as safety and rehabilitaion of
children," said 11-year-old Aarti Rawat.
Taking offence to pictures portraying the grim reality of
tsunami-affected areas, most of them emphasised the need for
projecting hope amidst disaster.
"Some of the photographs were extremely disturbing and gives
you a very dark view of the scene. It is a request to the media to be
more sensitive in the presentation of photographs since it gives
birth to fear among readers," said 14-year-old Chandan Kumar.
According to Ajay, a class vii student, most of the stories
relating to children were relegated to the back pages and hence were
not getting any attention.
The children also emphasised the need to do systematic
follow-up of issues.
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