Also, they need to stop asking people who've just had near-death experiences how they feel. How do you THINK they feel? They've just escaped being shot at by terrorists carrying AK47. Have probably seen corpses lying around on Hotel lobbies. Their whole life probably flashed before their lives. Here's a news flash: Scared witless is how they're feeling. Morons.
BTW, American news channels don't necessarily do a better job. Larry King asked Christiane Amanpour why this attack was gaining so much attention...after all many more people had been killed in previous attacks in Mumbai. And he asked it in a kind of exasperated tone. Like he was upset he couldn't discuss Barack Obama's choice of private school for Malia and Sasha. Like they haven't done it to death already. Deal with it, Larry.
Update: So I wrote this last night and didn't post it. It is now morning, and it is possible that the terrorists were using the news feeds conveniently provided to them by our intrepid journos. Also, the sheer mindlessness of the reporting has now scaled new heights. Or new lows, if you will.
Rajdeep Sardesai has "experts" in the studio discussing the tragic events of last night. They include Adman Prahlad Kakkar and journalist Anil Dharkar. Kakkar gives his expert opinion on the deaths of Mumbai's top cops. Why did they go in without backup, he asks? They were the people who could have provided leadership in this situation, and now they're dead. So, of course he knows that these very smart, well-trained cops went in, in a defiant act of foolhardiness without backup so they could get themselves killed so there would be no top cops left to lead the operation. They sabotaged us. Traitors. Getting themselves killed in this foolish manner..fighting terrorists! Anil Dharkar comments on the casual manner in which Hemant Karkare put on his vest. Of course, Karkare did not know at that point to do the deed with right amount of seriousness. Because he didn't know he'd be killed a few hours later. And that the manner in which he donned his bullet proof vest would be a talking point. God save us from the foolishness of random armchair experts!
I wish someone would shoot LK Advani. Why the fuck does he have to travel to Mumbai, and of course, go straight to the Taj? Doddering fool. All he does is mouth platitudes anyway. And of course, the blame game begins. The incompetence of the government is talked about, while rescue operations are still underway. Could we leave the discussions of our inability to deal with terror strikes to after the attack is OVER?
Bloody fools.
Update1: NDTV is now calling it Mumbai's 9/11. Nice.
Update2: Only in India can you see random people gawking at a military operation with gunfire and all. A policeman struggles to keep curious onlookers back. And a reporter reporting the firing as it happens above her head from a chopper. And the camera panning to a shot of commandos landing on the roof of a building. Surreal. I'm beyond criticizing the journalism anymore. They have no concept of ethics and responsibility. But this is like a movie. A bad
Bruce Willis movie.
Oh God...the anchor now chooses to ask whether it is OK for people to stand around gawking at a live war with live gunfire and a live commando operation. How about your live stupidity? What if that cherubic looking girl reporting from that site was caught in the crossfire? How would you justify your thirst for a story..no matter how it comes? Bloodthirsty folk, these reporter types.
Update3: Rajdeep Sardesai comes on phone to say that the only reason they can beam these pictures is because the power to the occupied buildings has been cut off. So the terrorists have no idea whats going on. Genius. Terrorists don't own cell phones of course. Who believes this stuff?
Update4: Day 3 is on...God..will this never end. I've stopped watching NDTV. I think Barkha Dutt has a giant gaping hole where the rest of us have a heart. Can she be more
insensitive?
insensitive?
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