Who’s politicising crisis situations – political parties or the media

23/11/2007

Some minutes back, Rajdeep Sardesai was moderating a CNN IBN studio debate between the Congress and BJP spokespersons on the UP serial blasts today. He alleged to both the spokespersons that why they are politicising the incident when both political parties should come together and work in solving the crisis in hand.

Well said, except for one thing. There was an irony. It was that the media was the one that seems to be politicising the issue more than anybody else.

I wonder why :

1.CNN IBN had to put resources on confirming the political party spokespersons and give so much airtime to the debate, when they should be running helpline numbers on their screens for the blast victims.

2. If some political parties are trying to politicise the issue, why did they have to pick it up? The media keeps talking about picking up relevant and important issues but this is what they chose to cover instead of the blast.

So even if political parties love politicising sensitive issues, the media loves getting mileage by blaming them for doing so, because they think that the audence would love them for being the watchdog. Well, the watchdog was being watched today.

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There are 11 comments in this article:

  1. 26/11/2007bella say:

    Ya , you’re so right. Everybody knows media just care for their TRP only. Have we not seen many a time media asking stupid and outrageous questions from victims? Highlighting all the raunchy stories when they should be acting as voice of public? Who can forget how much air time Abhisheak and Aishwarya’s marriage got and how much victim of blasts?

    I hope these channels wake up to their moral obligations along with their run for business, money.

  2. 27/11/2007palinn say:

    well said bella. those are some instances that the media overdo/miss out while trying to play the moral high ground

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