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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Mid-Day's exploitative story

hi all,

Just saw a post (http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=49641698651&topic=7986) on Facebook's `Consortium of pub-going, loose and forward Women'. I am quoting it verbatim...

"Those who have read the front page story in Mid Day today were shocked. It showed a semi-nude girl, with the headline `Another sex clip rocks campus'. http://www.mid-day.com/delhi/index.htm. The article (http://www.mid-day.com/news/2009/feb/180209-Noida-MBA-student-leaks-girlfriends-striptease-video.htm) goes on to explain how this girl's boyfriend filmed her striptease and circulated it on the mobile through MMS. What is shocking is how Midday, instead of showing the culprit's face, has shown the victim in only her undergarments. Her face may be pixilated, but it's still disgusting to show a girl's picture, in such a vulnerable state by such a supposedly reputed paper. Midday has done to the girl, what her boyfriend did to her -- it's an outrage of her modesty and sexual exploitation. Recently, Midday did something similar. A week ago, it carried the headline which was completely sensationalised (in red ink too) that a minor child had been raped. They DARED to show the picture of the child and her distraught mother on the front page, instead of the culprit's face who was in police custody. As if those disrespectful mid-day mates were not enough, the paper is set to exploit rape victims as well. I don't know about you, but i am banning that crazy paper from my home and office.

Do write in to mid-day@mailbag.com and cc to editor shishir.joshi@mid-day.com to express what you think of such activities on this paper's part. I agree most tabloids are the same, but at least they don't show the victim's exploitation on the front page (they don't spare even a raped child)!! mid-day has crossed that line even; it is unbelievable. They're getting a long letter from me; let's see if they have the guts to print it. And in keeping with this group's Gandhigiri attitude of non-violent yet powerful protests, let's collectively ban this exploitative paper. What say?"

Awaiting your comments on this, people.

posted by sc at 7:34 AM

12 Comments:

  • Oh man-o-man, you are so right. Midday is a tabloid, and their publication of this story is disgusting.

    This poor girl made the video for her boyfriend, and what does the turd do in return for such a wonderful gift? He posts it on the Internet to show to his friends. The villain is the boyfriend - and all the turds out there in India and on the Internet that continue to circulate her video against her will. This is like rape - doesn't anyone see that?

    And now, Midday has blasted it all over Delhi - as if it's actually news! What? No one can tell me that there's nothing more important happening in Delhi than some poor girl making a grievous error in her choice of lovers.

    And now her video is out there and other lowlifes are calling her a whore and all manner of names that just aren't applicable here. I will be writing to Midday, and I wanted you to know that there is at least one other person who agrees with you.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, At February 18, 2009 at 9:13 AM  

  • That is so disgusting.

    I am ashamed to say that this is not something I had previously noticed but yes now that you mention it, I do recall this happening far to many times.

    I am writing in and also linking this post to my blog.

    By Blogger Aathira, At February 18, 2009 at 11:35 PM  

  • Just to add that, the two email ids provided gave me a mailer daemon, so I responded via the 'Letter to Editor' on the Mid Day webpage.

    By Blogger Aathira, At February 18, 2009 at 11:48 PM  

  • Completley irresponsible behavior! Journalism has become a sham!

    By Blogger k10, At February 18, 2009 at 11:55 PM  

  • Bravo Roopsie. I'm going to shoot out an email right away!

    By OpenID writerzblock, At February 19, 2009 at 8:22 AM  

  • I feel that no part of victim-either body, face, name or location should be revealed in any kind of news.

    By Blogger Mampi, At February 22, 2009 at 5:41 AM  

  • What were they thinking?!

    By Blogger freespirit, At February 22, 2009 at 3:30 PM  

  • That's the problem with the Indian media. The tormentors go scot free while the tormented are made to look like the culprits.

    By Blogger ~nm, At March 3, 2009 at 3:51 AM  

  • Right..
    One does feel disgusted at such events...
    Our society instead of punishing the culprit.. adds on to the victim's grief .....

    By Blogger Arnav, At March 7, 2009 at 9:12 PM  

  • I dont expect anything better from Mid-Day. But yups maybe writing to editor would help and I would also put my email to editor.

    By Blogger Goli, At March 9, 2009 at 1:04 AM  

  • oh my god! is this true? did this realy happen? automate crystal

    By Blogger Grace, At April 2, 2010 at 10:22 AM  

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