Sagar,

So you'd also agree that there's no harm in selling cocaine or lethal
arms openly because there will always be buyers for them. It's up to
the buyers not to buy.
Correct?

Syed Usman

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Garima <garimagupta.06@...> wrote:
> Hi prashant,
> Well to answer your simple two liner....when there are thieves in your house
> and they have
> the audacity to put you on gun point, you do not go 'blogging'....
>
> You scream...shout and help the neighbors break out of their deep
> slumber.....
>
> Blogging is for personal pleasure and forums of such manner are for a wider
> impact....at least
> some of us do believe so...
>
> Garima Gupta
>
> 'Just another civilian'
> No other information is of any relevance anymore
>
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Sagarmoy Paul
> <sagarmoypaul@...>wrote:
>
>> "You see what you expect to see" famously said by brand guru Al Ries.
>> Media does not survive in isolation. It is a two way street. In the age of
>> tracking eyeballs, the news channels are getting so much more viewers
>> these
>> days that saas -bahu channels have become passe. Dhara has rightly said
>> that
>> it is the age of reality TV. And what we are seeing are precisely what
>> terrorists wanted us to see.
>>
>> It is our inherent primordial voyeurism at work here. We are all party to
>> it. If there are no audiences, terrorist's modus operandi of using media
>> will fail. The paparazzi like TV exposure this time only aided and abated
>> the massacre, as it has now been revealed that the terrorists inside were
>> getting all the news inputs from their masters via their satellite phones.
>>
>> Our love of watching tamashas were evident by the thousands on the street
>> and millions in front of the TV screen. We blamed Americans for prime time
>> viewing of Iraq invasion through their 'embedded' journos in army. We
>> fared
>> worst. We like to see the gore, the violence, TV anchor's hysteria, the
>> insensitivity of the politician's statements....all from the comfort of
>> our
>> living rooms, as long as the victims are somebody else.
>>
>> Why blame media? We are the consumers of visual terrorism. We are morally
>> responsible of seeing what we choose to see.
>>
>> Sagar
>> New Delhi
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