Whenever any wrong incidents like earthquake, flood, storm and even in case of accidents, violence, terrorism attack goes in any part of world most of the time the actual figures/stats about loss of life and assets are not published in newspaper nor told by media and official (Govt.) data always very small in comparison to the views given by the eye-witnesses. Generally official figures are 25 to 40% of actual figures. Recently in violence at Assam, India One eye –witness says that he had seen so many body lying on the streets but news published in newspaper and media mentions only few. In case of earthquake in Gujarat and Kashmir and in Tsunami figures mentioned by Govt. Departments are too low in comparison to actual. Why the correct estimates about loss of life and assets are not taken into account. Does it mean we are running from reality or we want to hide the facts from public / common people even knowing that unofficially everyone is aware about it? I am unable to find why?
If anyone of you could answer this, please comment.
In my country, Finland, it's just the opposite! I guess this is too peaceful a place and when something happens the press is handling it too much. Regarding the Tsunami they published everyone dead or missing (from Finland) and they are still publishing survival stories...
ReplyDeleteIf one Finnish person dies abroad unexpectedly, it will surely end up in the news! The press has a freedom of speech but I think they are going way out of line...