When is it that the Media is going to get it through that thick head of theirs that one aspect of their job is not to spread panic and another is to report only confirmed news? Anyone who switched on their TV yesterday would have been numbed by their sick race of giving the most “Exclusive” news.

One channel, I think it was Zee Business, was reporting blasts and firing at places like JJ School of Arts and Napean Sea Road. I gasped when I watched another reporter, I think from India TV, walk all over the crime scene at CST. He was picking up bullets and thrusting them in the face of the camera. I don’t have any homicidal tendencies but when he pointed twice at an unexploded grenade I wished it would explode in his face as a lesson to other overzealous reporters. And he had the nerve to say that they can’t show any more blood on TV even as the camera was rolling on pools of clotted blood on the ground!

Times Now was flashing the news that the Taj Hotel was “gutted” yesterday as a result of fire. Did anyone stop to check what the word “gutted” means? It means “burnt to ground”. The Taj is still standing the last time I checked - thank God for that! But what would this ‘breaking news” do to someone who just switched on the TV?

Sure, these news channels have a job to do. But there are some ethics in every profession and day by day the Media are crossing the line.