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An India TV anchor, Tanu Sharma, attempted
suicide on June 22 just outside her office
premises in Noida. The journalist who is said to
be out of danger now, took the drastic step
allegedly because of harassment from two
senior colleagues.
Before the suicide attempt, she wrote a note on
social networking site Facebook blaming two of
her seniors for mental harassment and
conspiracy.
As the TV presenter is recovering from the
trauma, her plight has very conveniently and
silently swept under the carpet by the media
itself.
There are two versions to this story--one given
by the Journalist herself and the other by the
News channel.
If the version given by journalist is true then
what happened is very unfortunate. However,
what is more dismal is the media's coverage of
the issue. The media largely ignored it and those
who covered it gave a very limited coverage to
the issue.
A famous actress charging Ness Wadia with
molestation is a sensational story, while a
suicide attempt by a TV journalist is not
important.
The alacrity with which the media acted in
reporting the Tejpal case and the so called
Preity-Ness mess case was nowhere to be seen
in this case. While the Tejpal and Preity Zinta's
cases made it to the front page and primetime
news slot for at least a week, Tanu's suicide
attempt case was relegated to the back pages of
newspapers and was soon forgotten. The news
reports did go beyond quoting from Tanu's
Facebook note, which she wrote before
attempting suicide. But in the aforementioned
cases, the brouhaha over the cases did not seem
to have faded a bit even after weeks.Read full article here Suicide attempt: When media insider cries foul, why does media fall silent? - News Oneindia
suicide on June 22 just outside her office
premises in Noida. The journalist who is said to
be out of danger now, took the drastic step
allegedly because of harassment from two
senior colleagues.
Before the suicide attempt, she wrote a note on
social networking site Facebook blaming two of
her seniors for mental harassment and
conspiracy.
As the TV presenter is recovering from the
trauma, her plight has very conveniently and
silently swept under the carpet by the media
itself.
There are two versions to this story--one given
by the Journalist herself and the other by the
News channel.
If the version given by journalist is true then
what happened is very unfortunate. However,
what is more dismal is the media's coverage of
the issue. The media largely ignored it and those
who covered it gave a very limited coverage to
the issue.
A famous actress charging Ness Wadia with
molestation is a sensational story, while a
suicide attempt by a TV journalist is not
important.
The alacrity with which the media acted in
reporting the Tejpal case and the so called
Preity-Ness mess case was nowhere to be seen
in this case. While the Tejpal and Preity Zinta's
cases made it to the front page and primetime
news slot for at least a week, Tanu's suicide
attempt case was relegated to the back pages of
newspapers and was soon forgotten. The news
reports did go beyond quoting from Tanu's
Facebook note, which she wrote before
attempting suicide. But in the aforementioned
cases, the brouhaha over the cases did not seem
to have faded a bit even after weeks.Read full article here Suicide attempt: When media insider cries foul, why does media fall silent? - News Oneindia
