Media coverage of the Mumbai siege

How about this.

You approach an opposition leader and ask him his views on the attacks in Mumbai. He starts off saying this is a dastardly attack on the soverignity of the nation and all Indians should stay united.

You ask him who is responsible for Mumbai or India being so vulnerable. He replies saying its the central government thats reponsible to the security of the country and also iterates that the Union govt has failed in its primary responsiblity of protecting the citizens.

Cut the scene. He is gone. Now you start transmitting images of the politician blaming the govt for its failure and repeatedly say "the politicisation of the issue has already started".

Now starts the real tamasha. You start blaming the union govt yourselves and repeatedly show the iamges of the former union Home Minister doing the rounds to various terror affected sites over the past few years and broadcast his statements from each occasion.

Hang on a second. Are you not politicising the issue. This is what the other guy did as well. If that could be called politicising then why should what you are doing called politicising.

This is how the general coverage of the entire issue in the media has been over the past few days, albeit with a few decent exceptions. On the whole I would say the media's coverage of the issue is a Disgrace.

Bringing a few dozen people on to a television show and riling them all up against the politicians does not come any closer to promoting unity among the citizens of the country. Grow up guys.