News Channels - Are they doing justice?
02-12-2008 Gurgaon Today I read a nice post in Rediff by Vishal Dadlani regarding the live telecast of the Mumbai attack by news television channels. He says, the channels exposed the plans of the military and National Security Guard as they tried to overwhelm the terrorists and rescue hostages. He feels their telecast compromised the security of the commandos as well as that of the hostages. Read more on the story here After reading his post, I felt I also agreed with him and that I should support his cause due to another reason. I tried adding my comment there itself, but i had the restriction of 1500 characters. So I am expressing my views in my own blog... “A mic and a f***ing camera & they think they are the best! Why don’t those ‘COWARD BASTARDS’ shoot a couple of these idiots?” (I am sorry… but this was my caption in gtalk and Orkut on 26th night when I started watching the coverage on TV channels) Today there are so many news channels, each competing with one another just