Mukund, who did a great job updating Twitter-istan on the Bangalore blasts with his innumerable tweets,visits a blast scene and writes that a news reporter’s job is not as easy as we think.
1. Separating fact from fiction & opinion. 3 policemen were offering 3 different variants of the blast. No kidding. Wonder why they even chose to speak to the reporters - I am sure they were not “authorized”. On top of that 2 “eye witnesses” were offering their slight of the “sequence of events”. Learning what happened and when was difficult at best, let alone trying to determine why or who. So imagine you are the reporter (and its hard enough trying to locate who was there), you are now being asked on your headset to report what’s going on. No wonder the reporters back in the studios ask layup questions like “What’s the mood out there?” and “What are you hearing?”.
He is continuing with his updates on the Ahmedabad blasts.
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madhavi
Jul 27th, 2008 at 1:25 pm | #
I am very sad by hearing this news about blast.And really its greate job done by reporter.it is not an easy task to go that place and take scence what were happened there and produce by news before us.
Nikhil Narayanan
Jul 28th, 2008 at 12:01 am | #
@Madhavi
Very unfortunate events
We should give it to the news reporters and the police.
-Nikhil