The Art of News Reading -Part-I

What you see is not the entire event, but rather a version of the event that often contains various forms of bias. The past two weeks is tense in Nandigram. We see news in bottom of all English channels which say Mamta not allowed to enter , CPM gunning down people, Governor is wrong, If capturing is correct why not recapturing? etc. But not one channel has tried to venture in to Nandigram to show us what exactly is happening there. If the same had happened in Gujarat or Bihar the channels would have occupied twenty four hours on it. There seems to be a bias for the communists in the English channels. So far I have not understood what is happening there. What's telecast should be fair, accurate and reasonably complete. All those who are stakeholders in the story should be given a reasonable opportunity to state their case. In addition to making sure what's broadcast meets these requirements, reporters should also ask themselves if anything important is missing from their story. But they never seem to happen here. When mamatha resigned, A news reader made it seem she is making politics on Nandigram. The objectivity is totally lost. And the CPM is making headlines by making it seem that all in Nandigram is because of provocation from the governor and the Channels buy the story without any rebuke. There is something wrong in the news we see? Perhaps a written version is better. see How nandigram was recaptured? to know what happened there in near past and compare with what you saw in TV in the same time. Also is it ethical and legal for a ruling party to let its party take arms and go fighting? Ofcourse the view of CPM sympathisers are also valid. How can you let rebels run a state with in a state and did media expose this at all? why has the media found nothing to criticize in the fact that the area was being held by armed activists and was a state within a state for all these 12 months? Does the media adopt such an ostrich like attitude towards other areas in India held by armed rebels? Also if the left thinks it is right to do a wrong to correct a wrong how wrong is it when the right[MODI and company]does the same? Well these channels do not deliver news but opinions and are also in an attempt to build opinions. - continued.....