Living off a hanging

IN Media Watch Briefs | 30/07/2015

Peeved at the 'spectacle' TV was making of Yakub Memon's hanging, Kiran Bedi gave a tutorial to CNN-IBN's Zakka Jacob on how not to escalate public passions. Stop giving a blow-by-blow account. Take away the cameras and the people would cease gathering near the Nagpur jail. Just announce the hanging and say when the body was handed over. "BBC and CNN don't do this (kind of coverage) and TRPs are not on their minds." Said Jacob,"It's an online world. Twitter leads the news agenda". Bedi: "Each picture is a 1000 words, each picture is a 1000 tweets. So why the blow-by-blow coverage of how the body would be moved?"

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