Manufacturing victims

IN Media Watch Briefs | 11/07/2011
A major  accident on a train from their region will make newspapers  look for local victims. And invent them if necessary. Punjab papers reporting on the Kalka mail accident wrote their own script on Sunday night when the number of  Ambala victims was not confirmed.  The Punjab Kesari reported that seven of the deceased were from the Ambala region, when in fact of the 7 identified till then, none were. Amar Ujala said there were 211 passengers  from Ambala, Chandigarh and Kalka,  but the number brought back to Ambala by a special train were less than a fourth of that figure.