Yes media is undoubtedly escalating extremism...I’m going to have to say hype. I don’t think they have any conscience about what they lie about but addressing to the issue of over sensationalizing the extreme acts from fanatics is something they need to address, keeping aside their journalism ethics.

what am i tryin to say is that the media’s job to report on all aspects of the story is important but the more important part what i see as missing these days from the main stream media is responsibility. We have to responsibly see who he was rather than knowing that he had a profile on Orkut or Facebook for that matter. this is so irrelevant to the incident and a serious mishandling of the coverage that we unfortunately see too often these days. That’s an obligation of ours.

One can already hear the roar coming out of the mouths of many who have not been thinking of this in a critical way, particularly those well-paid mouthpieces on TV and radio masquerading themselves REPORTERS

Yes, media now a days is looking for the hell to come out for their channel… always exaggerating some details here and some there… and sometimes making hell out of it! it’s not merely the reporting of the incidents, they look more for the popularity of the channel. it’s noting more than a popularity stunt…and to crave for something sensational and adding fuel to it rather making public aware of the incident. Truth is altogether missing or rather partial hidden under the mind boggling facts that add to sensationalism than for interpret or meet reality…so this practice goes on…

whether hype or just a screw-up, i’d expect reports from the media to be accurate.

Yes yes yes… media is devil’s den. They make the things pathetic. They really do not bother what will be impact of this. The hell you know e.g. if we see any news channel in India, Znews, Ajtak or any other channel, they go on repeating the news so many times irritating isn’t it? if we see the episode in UP when the police constable dragged the thief with his bike, that incident was repeated scores of time and similarly a lady constable beating a man who mistakenly taunted her on the road meted the same fate making the mockery of media that is loosing its value with that. Above all it’s a mad race going on in these channels to search for news and adding spice to it that some way is degrading the profession than telling reality.

You somehow expect better from the mainstream media? Media might not be escalating extremism but definitely an overstatement. I caught about the last ten minutes of some program last night but it was enough to make my blood boil. This mainstream media really sucks.

The media is covertly if not overtly is providing a platform to terrorists. Of course, the role of the media is to report but in a bid to splashing a news, media often commits the cardinal error to flash a terrorist-incident related news without confirming the events and checking the credentials of the news source. Little wonder, the media loses its credibility in the long run. Therefore, the need of the hour is that media persons should indulge into retrospection and evolve a way in which the terrorists should not be portrayed as heroes. A villain remains a villain however lofty ideals one may carry.

Yes, media to some extent is also responsible for the growing hatred in the world. The first terrorist who exploited the media for his purposes was Carlos the jackal who staged the OPEC raid. Media was used as communication means. The Osama bin Laden has done the same. Otherwise killing three thousand people should not have affected the world at all, where every year far more than that die from road accidents. But Osama with the help of media made everybody feel unsafe, leading to the Islamophobia and making the Muslim community an outsider in every developed country. This ensued that Muslims get attracted to extremism where they find self-respect and pride, which is essential for everybody. It all may seem to be the imagination of my mind but I can promise you that it is not.

The George Orwell told us in his essay how the words, especially the adjectives, are exploited for the purpose of propaganda.

Saying that media has a duty to present the facts is right, but don’t it also has responsibility to hide many facts? Many times some facts are there only to be misused. When the name of terrorists are given in media the Muslims terrorists are more spotlighted creating the wrong notion that all terrorists are Muslims, which is factually wrong, making an atmosphere where every Musilm with a beard is seen with a suspicious eye.

Media has very important function in any state that is to ask the right questions. But that is a far more difficult thing than it sounds, and erring in it without realising is very easy. So it is requested that freedom of speech which is a basic right of every human on the face of earth be exercised judiciously as its repercussions are really grave for everyone.