It is sad to see the approach of Indian TV channels-especially Arnab Goswami of Times Now TV. Invariably all TV anchors/newsreaders assume the role of sole reps of indian citizens and go over board. The Dutch did not start any racial discrimination. Only 12 passengers, all muslims -the fact they may not have known till touch down, out of total 173 passengers comprising of other indian citizens have been deplaned and questioned only due to their irresponsible behaviour. The relatives mentioned that their kin has been in export import business for over 15 years. Some of the 12 were hardly 32plus which means they started export at age 17!!!!! the 12 behaved irresponsibly and got attraction of crew and despite warning continued their behaviour to be escorted by airmarshalls. Arnab Goswami of Times TV took the lead to call the incident as racial and all tv channels wanted to beat each other for their own mileage. Why did not the other of 173 people on the flight complain of racial approach even when they were to be housed in some hotels? indian tv channels are irresponsible, reckless and arrogant and want to sensationalise and capitalise on this.
RE:racially profiled?? who says so?/ only ambitius, immature television anchors.
by Joseph Maprayil on Aug 26, 2006 03:45 PM Permalink
You are to the point Mr. Swaminathan.
What the TV guys did is patently wrong. In fact we, the public, also should wait for form our opinions. As I understand it, one of the detained travellers himself admitted that the aircrew became suspicious after the bunch of idiots started exchanging seats. Hope Rhea Ganguly, official from the Indian mission, would throw some light on the issue.
RE:racially profiled?? who says so?/ only ambitius, immature television anchors.
by Raja Mohan on Aug 28, 2006 11:26 AM Permalink
Media is really commercial nowadays and all they do is extracting the sleeping evil from some of us. While talking about educating the poorer class, Population need some good thinking, the media chooses the topics like Vandematharam, racism and Ganguly. And to ignite us, they even manipulate their writeups and visual programs. Even the current rediff article which should be unbiased had some content that ignites us.(look at the sentence "That was reason enough for the pilots of Northwest Airlines to send an SOS to the Dutch authorities." By saying this instead of being neutral rediff took a side and tried to direct the readers in that direct.The reality in the flight was not that simple.) Media can come with goo topics and extract excellent opinions and suggestions from people instead of provoking readers to blame a country, community, caste, persons or a group.
