[Reader-list] OB vans in Mehrauli

Kshmendra Kaul kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com
Sun Sep 28 13:41:38 IST 2008


Dear Shivam
 
A good post. Thank you for recording these observations.
 
Kshmendra

--- On Sat, 9/27/08, Shivam Vij शिवम् <mail at shivamvij.com> wrote:

From: Shivam Vij शिवम् <mail at shivamvij.com>
Subject: [Reader-list] OB vans in Mehrauli
To: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008, 10:59 PM

Dear friends,

I was in Mehrauli today for a few good hours. I don't have the
patience to write a long post. Just a few things.

Firstly, Star News should be banned, like forever, for showing those
graphic images of part of a boy's head. If not for tom-tomming all day
how they were the first of the vultures.

Secondly, all you illiterate TV journalists, you don't have to know
about Phoolwalon Ki Ser and what it's about. You can just ask the
locals, "Tell me a little about this area". If there's a bomb
blast at
the intersection of a Hindu and a Muslim colony, in a place that has a
syncretic culture maintained now for centuries, strengthened by Gandhi
and Nehru… surely, this is important background detail?

Thirdly, all you idiotic TV camerawalas, no, I will not move, your
visual is not a bit more important than my observation.

Fourthly, a police cordon is not meant to be jumped. If you jump it,
so will the rest of the wolves. And you will trample over the forensic
evidence that's being collected.

Fifthly, all you TV reporters who used the words ammonium nitrate as
frequent as 'byte', the police never said there was any ammonium
nitrate. Stop talking on you effing live broadcasts. Stop and listen.

Sixthly, all you TV reporters who crowded the small house of the boy
who died, it was not a public place just because it was a poor
labourer's house. When somebody says please leave, leave. You can't
force a mourning family to give the same byte for two dozen cameras
one after the other.

And you don't have to run the camera over a washed pucca road and say
again and again, "There was blood all over here. There was blood all
over. All over." Your viewer will get the point even if you weren't as
excited about human blood.

I have more to say but writing this much is enough to bring down my
blood pressure. Thanks but no thanks. May those graphic images never
let you sleep because during office hours you're a camera without a
brain.

shivam
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