What else can be the talk of the town than the recent kidnap episode of young Rohit that ended on a happy note for his beleaguered family!
If the boy’s parents were thoroughly shaken with the kidnap, the way the incident was covered by the electronic media and the way they kept goading the family members to give them some ‘bytes’, it in no way would have made the ordeal easy for them.
The wide publicity in this case did petrify the culprits who fortunately left the kid unharmed and fled. But media coverage is like a double-edged sword.
If it can do good, anything in excess could also harm. What exasperated many was the oft-criticised no-holds-barred intrusion of media into the personal space of people, at a time when they were vulnerable and helpless.
“Has any one given a thought how the attention from the electronic media could have affected the already traumatised boy?” wondered a parent. “Is ‘news-entertainment ’ the bane of 24-hour news channels one has to live with?” pondered quite a few.
M.L. MELLY MAITREYI
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