Well, at this point of time when everything is calming down, I don’t know whether it’s appropriate to once again ponder upon this issue but since I have already written it and eagerly want to share it, I am taking the plunge hereby.

Over the last two days, though quite naturally, there have been lots of discussions going on, whether in print or online or on air, on the role of media in these situations. Well, on personal level I always curse them for the kind of news they have been covering these days, particularly those hindi news channels, or for that matter the way in which they have covered this particular issue. I mean the scenes such as showing the position of NSG commandos or mentioning out the way in which NSG is carrying out their operations or showing the scenes of injured people running in pain rather than helping them out or giving out any other type of important information is just crossing the line of control. And and ironically there is always a subtle sense of joy in their tone (barring few such as Nidhi Razdan, Rajdeep Sardesai) whenever a news of high altitude (or devastation) reaches their ears. So its like I, atleast, always see them as an intangible weapon available to many facets of destruction whether it be militants or any other silent assassins within the country itself.

But it was till I came across an article written by Mr. Jug Suraiya, who seemed to had been echoing the same views throughout his write-up but surprisingly ended up with an unanswered question:

‘But who create(s) the media?’

Sourav..