[Reader-list] OB vans in Mehrauli

[radhikarajen at vsnl.net]

Best award for grahic sound effect is being claimed by many visual media channels, sound effect of star news with graphic details was astouding being the first to "show" and IBN had in house sound production for every scene change a good sound effect, from old marati movies that of god presenting on the screen-- typical sound to show the horror of terror.?So the award goes to CNNIBN for best sound effects and grahic designs award to star news.!

Regards.

----- Original Message -----
From: Shivam Vij शिवम् विज् <mail at shivamvij.com>
Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008 11:00 pm
Subject: [Reader-list] OB vans in Mehrauli
To: sarai list <reader-list at sarai.net>

> Dear friends,
> 
> I was in Mehrauli today for a few good hours. I don't have the
> patience to write a long post. Just a few things.
> 
> Firstly, Star News should be banned, like forever, for showing those
> graphic images of part of a boy's head. If not for tom-tomming all day
> how they were the first of the vultures.
> 
> Secondly, all you illiterate TV journalists, you don't have to know
> about Phoolwalon Ki Ser and what it's about. You can just ask the
> locals, "Tell me a little about this area". If there's a bomb 
> blast at
> the intersection of a Hindu and a Muslim colony, in a place that 
> has a
> syncretic culture maintained now for centuries, strengthened by Gandhi
> and Nehru… surely, this is important background detail?
> 
> Thirdly, all you idiotic TV camerawalas, no, I will not move, your
> visual is not a bit more important than my observation.
> 
> Fourthly, a police cordon is not meant to be jumped. If you jump it,
> so will the rest of the wolves. And you will trample over the forensic
> evidence that's being collected.
> 
> Fifthly, all you TV reporters who used the words ammonium nitrate as
> frequent as 'byte', the police never said there was any ammonium
> nitrate. Stop talking on you effing live broadcasts. Stop and listen.
> 
> Sixthly, all you TV reporters who crowded the small house of the boy
> who died, it was not a public place just because it was a poor
> labourer's house. When somebody says please leave, leave. You can't
> force a mourning family to give the same byte for two dozen cameras
> one after the other.
> 
> And you don't have to run the camera over a washed pucca road and say
> again and again, "There was blood all over here. There was blood all
> over. All over." Your viewer will get the point even if you 
> weren't as
> excited about human blood.
> 
> I have more to say but writing this much is enough to bring down my
> blood pressure. Thanks but no thanks. May those graphic images never
> let you sleep because during office hours you're a camera without a
> brain.
> 
> shivam
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