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| Now, nationalist media under attack in Kashmir | | NIT row | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 9: Press/media is the fourth pillar of Indian democracy. The three other are legislative, judiciary and executive. However, it is the media, which plays the most significant role. It, in fact, plays the role of watchdog and keeps legislature, executive, and even judiciary on tenterhooks, as it takes up issues of public and national import, seeks to expose the wrong-doers and makes public opinion.
As was expected, the responsible nationalist media in New Delhi, Noida and elsewhere in the country took the issue of brutal assault on the non-Kashmiri students of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar in a big way and presented a true picture of facts not only to the nation but also to the international community to show the real face of Kashmir. The fact of the matter is that it was, and is, the role of media that forced the powers-that-be in New Delhi to take cognizance of the feelings and fears of the hurt nation and turn its attention towards the brutalized non-Kashmiri students.
Notwithstanding the fact, that the authorities, including Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani, failed to instill confidence in the brutalized community of students, the Kashmiri separatists, Kashmiri students, seditionist MLAs like Er Rasheed, to mention only a few in Kashmir, have instead of assuaging the hurt feelings of the non-Kashmiri students and reassuring them that they would see to it that they remained safe and secure in Srinagar have unleashed a no-holds-barred propaganda blitz against the national media in general and leading news channels in particular.
Their grievance is that the Delhi-based, Noida-based and other national media houses have been bypassing their own local reporters and those from other places covering the incident particularly after March 6 have been putting out distorted stories.
They have been targeting the news channels like Times Now, NDTV, News X, India TV, ABP, IBN7, Zee News, Aaj Tak, India TV, India News, News24 and so on, saying all have bypassed their local reporters. "The outside State reporters of these channels are stationed outside NIT Srinagar to report what they call in a "fair and unbiased' manner," they were quoted as saying by a local news agency.
They have been accusing reporters from New Delhi based news channels of "inciting" non-local students for violence and are appealing to the authorities to force media channels to vacate from the main gate of the Institute. "Some Delhi and Mumbai based reporters call non-local students from their cell phones and ask them to march towards main gate. They do it to show that non-local students continue to protest against local police," they on Friday said, adding that the "authorities must ask these media houses to vacate main gate of the campus so that peace prevail in the institute".
Even some local reporters working for Delhi-based news channel are also expressing the same view and charging the media houses with bypassing them. "Most of the news channels bypassed their Kashmir based reporters and these channels dispatched their reporters to Kashmir from many parts of India. Can you believe it an English news channel has sent two reporters to Kashmir who are camping outside NIT. An immaterial issue is being given so much hype," some of them were quoted as saying on Friday.
As for the Kashmiri students, they have said that the intentions of the non-local reporters are not pious. They have reportedly said: "Some non-local students on Friday tried to march towards main gate on the behest of a camera crew. Have they flown from New Delhi to disturb the peace here? We fail to understand what message they want to convey to the people across India".
The charges being leveled against the national media, including news channels, are motivated. The media houses have been only discharging their duty in the manner they should be considering the nature of the incident. The point is that the Indian media deserves kudos for fair reporting from the spot and keeping the nation aware of the true story. |
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