How Pakistan treats its rape victims
-This is one of the most SAD headlines rediff can give for a report. The rape victim was ill-treated all right, but I see NO difference in the way an Indian rape victim is treated [I have some basis for that statement, not a blind one].
It’s not a question of how each country treats its victims, but more to do with how little people understand a rape victim’s psyche. Each country has innumerable stories to tell about ill-treatment and the like, that never should be a question.
I was a bit irritated to see how Rediff gave such an illogical headline for its article!
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I purposely don’t want to go into the details of the rape victim’s [Shazia] plight, because I’m pretty much sure, any human in his senses would definitely understand and react to it. My post was aimed at Rediff’s headline, to be specific. Beacuse, in one of my previous posts, I’d referred to Pakistan’s “DAWN” newspaper coming down on Indians, this was to say, Indian news services aren’t better either.
This kind of reporting, when it doesn’t really reflect the country, is not what journalism is about. And a bit insane to make a singular case of Rape and ill-treatment, a plural, as the headline implies.
Immunity to insanity is at times the best option, I realise, atleast with respect to news.
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Apologise if the post was a random demented read, wrote it in a hurry.
krishna iyengar Said:
on May 17, 2006 at 12:51 pm
The media is always upto sensationalizing the news. An indian news paper will print anti-pak headlines to catch attention and vice versa. Unfortunately there is nothing as unbiased reporting. Taking the example of reservations, the hindu is pro-reservation and hence doesn’t cover the protests well. Other news channels have covered the protests in delhi with such “accuracy” that the students have almost become famous. The times of india on the other hand has a unique approach. It concentrates on gossip and printing pictures of scantly clad women. Whose interested in news anyways?? And I am unhappy to say that Times of India is quite popular (atrocious!)
Ubiquitous Said:
on May 17, 2006 at 10:55 pm
Publicity, Rams, as we all know, is good whether good or bad
Yup, the headline is crap I agree. Instead of focussing on the victim and her trauma, they went about harping on the fact that it was in Pakistan.
We couldn’t care less. Atleast I wouldn’t. Read-if I rediff
Ghost Particle Said:
on May 21, 2006 at 2:10 pm
when u have a country run by f***ed up animals with no decent brain then this is what you get. And I cant believe the international community is not doing anything since this incident been going on for years now. Pity the females there, I wish I can help.