[Reader-list] kashmir pictures

[Kshmendra Kaul]

Dear Mahmood
 
Whether 'all press' is communal or not, you certainly are. You are trying to instigate communal feelings by suggesting a communal slant.
 
Times of India and Hindustan Times showed photograph of a hoodlum attacking a policeman.
 
Inquilab showed the photograph of a person injured by police firing. If this person was a part of the mob attempting to break the law and/or attacking the police, then the injured person was a hoodlum injured by police firing.
 
What is communal in all of this? You are the one making it communal.
 
There was confrontation between the police and law breaking hoodlums in Kashmir and in Jammu. What makes either situation communal?
 
Which is the 'communal' one between two kinds of photographs, one where law enforcers are shown as being attacked by law breakers and another one where law breakers are shown as having been hurt by law enforcers.
 
Perhaps if you had furnished the captions accompanying the photographs, one could make a call on which newspaper showed a 'communal' tinge
 
Kshmendra
 
 
 
 
--- On Wed, 8/13/08, mahmood farooqui <mahmood.farooqui at gmail.com> wrote:

From: mahmood farooqui <mahmood.farooqui at gmail.com>
Subject: [Reader-list] kashmir pictures
To: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>, "Aamir Bashir" <unattore1 at gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 12:33 PM

Yesterday, nine Kashmiris were allegedly killed in the valley because of the
police firing.

Today, in the Bombay editions of the Times of India and Hindustan Times,
there is an identical image of a policeman being attacked by a Kashmiri.
There are no images of any Kashmiris being killed or attacked by the police.

The Urdu daily Inqilab, however, shows a Kashmiri injured by the police
firing.

Is it simplistic to say that all press is communal?

Is the poser itself simplistic?
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