The media trial against #RheaChakrobarty is ghastly, but then you are reminded of the Sudha Bhardwaj case and words fail.
It was TV news channels again that had launched a full-blown campaign against her before her arrest. It's a privilege to say 'let's just switch off'...
...many don't have the option because TV news actively comes at your to hound and destroy your life.
This was Republic painting her as an enemy of the state.
newslaundry.com/2018/07/06/rep…
This profile does full justice to the huge tragedy that is Sudha Bhardwaj's continued incarceration with no trial or bail in sight. article-14.com/post/the-sudha…
In each such case where the state machineries goes after you, the momentum is first built on TV news.
From JNU sedition case to the Bhima Koregaon case to the recent Delhi riots, there's plenty of examples. It's the same formula of targeted hate, except the characters change.
#RheaChakraborty's arrest comes after a month-long campaign by anchors to portray her as some sort of a vamp who 'phasaoed' SSR, ‘gave him depression’ and 'fed him drugs'.
TV news destroys lives. This is not the first time and it won't be the last.
newslaundry.com/2020/08/01/sus…
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