The least of an attachment with the city of Kolkata was enough to feel a certain loss, when you saw the Stephen Court engulfed in flames.Music World right below on the ground floor and the first, was a favorite haunt, every year that I visited Cal.
But what annoyed me more than the incident,an utterly unfortunate one, was the way it has been covered by the broadcast media and,I wouldnt wonder if, by tomorrow, tales of human losses would have been offered on a platter and devoured by the voyeuristic reader, who hasnt had enough of it from the television screen.
I dont deny the TRP value of these stories, but it irks me somewhere to be a part of such insenitivity certain times. You commercialise tragedies and who doesnt love to cry. Well, if I am citing a problem, I must have the balls to give a solution too.I do advocate censorship. I do support Freedom of Press, but not at the cost of tear-trade as I would like to call it. Its essential to think on these lines, because at the end of the day, tis a victim on the other side, and while information needs to be shared by the masses, I dont know how immediate is the need to tear open the wounds of injury and exhibit it. Today, when I saw the images of the families of People who died in the inferno, I was shocked at the utter apathy with which some of the English news channels handled these cases. I had to make an effort to switch to other channels, after all the voyeur in me wanted its share of pleasure too. But somehow they were my own people.
Its the inherent unresponsiveness in the Channel Policies that has done all the harm. Me, by no means, have the power or inclination to clean this perpetual dirt embossed on thier ethical arses.
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