Comments on: Mumbai via social media

By: Jon Lebkowsky

Jon Lebkowsky — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:06:38 +0000

Right, and you would expect “wildly differing estimates” in reports from the scene during a crisis like this.

By: andy carvin

andy carvin — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:23:46 +0000

It’s interesting he cited how Twitter users were spreading the rumor that up to 1000 people had been injured. Perhaps that’s because this is the number the Times of India had plastered on its homepage for 24 hours. It’s not like Twitter users were making this stuff up…. They were simply passing along the bad info that MSM was feeding them.

By: Mrinal Wadhwa

Mrinal Wadhwa — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:08:48 +0000

Jon,

CNN is absolutely right when they say the most tweets were “sourced from mainstream media”

Why I think the mainstream India media has been very irresponsible during this episode is because even after repeated requests from authorities, TV channels like Times Now continue to cover (even right now) the NSG operation live revealing sensitive movement/positions of soldiers jeopardizing their lives and putting the whole operation at risk … hoping to gain some brownie points for “Live Coverage”

While Times Now is one example other channels weren’t any better either over the course of the last 50 something hours .. I think the presence of the media and their repeated irresponsible actions made it much harder for the soldiers to do their job.

Mrinal

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