Thursday, April 26, 2007

Media Intrusion

About media intrusion during his son's wedding, Amitabh Bhachan says,

"...We kept it personal and private. By continuously writing about it, the media made it nauseatingly public. Not a single detail carried had any endorsement from either family. This is not media's wedding, it is my son's and it is my private affair. On the night of the wedding, Abhishek and Aishwarya wanted to seek my mother's blessings. They were chased and hounded and virtually made captive inside their car at the hospital premises (my mother is lying critically ill) and were unable to come out of it. They had to forego that moment and left without being able to take the blessings of my mother..."

The print and TV media normally discuss, in their columns and special programs, about every topics. Is there any serious discussion on the media-intrusion? Do they have any clarity on this issue of intrusion? Or is it only the scoop that takes the priority over everything else?

There is a nice cartoon here on media intrusion.

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