Archive for September 2009
YSR’s coverage in the Indian News Media — Spare A Thought
The past two days, the big headlines in the Indian news circuit is all about the sad and tragic demise of the Andra Pradesh Chief Minister, Y Rajasekhar Reddy..
This is what struck me when I glanced through the news papers/ flipped through the news channels –> The urge to cover everything about YSR was so great that nobody bothered to mention about the “four other folks” ( Yes, that’s how the media is writing about them) who accompanied him in the ill-fated chopper…Why this apathy? I mean, don’t these folks also have families mourning for them? Is their lives any less important than the Chief Minister? Not even a passing mention in any of the major dailies, not one photo flash of the Security Officer, the chief secretary, the pilot and the co-pilot…. I had to google to find their names… and the official PR release also did not care to mention them by name…
NDTV’s headline reads ” YSR, 4 others killed in Chopper crash”… Well, fair enough… But does’nt the public ( and more importantly the family of the deceased) deserve a bit more than this in the body of the message?
Small consolation that they atleast mentioned the names –> The chief minister was accompanied by special secretary P Subramaniam and chief security officer A S C Wesley in the chopper piloted by Group Capt S K Bhatia and Capt M S Reddy.
My heart goes out to the families of these folks, whose loved near and dear ones…May their souls ALSO rest in peace!
