Thread by @MnshaP

"Our job is also to give voice to people who don’t have it. And at a lot of these crematoriums people are coming up to us and expressing their grief and anger.”

Indian & foreign press is reporting from crematoriums because THAT IS where the story is.
newslaundry.com/2021/04/27/why…

As deaths from Covid surged in New York last year, Reuters, Washington Post, CNN, New York Times, BBC, Telegraph showed drone footage of caskets being buried in mass graves. There were similar reports from graveyards in Brazil, Italy and the UK.

India isn’t being singled out.

“This is the truth. We are documenting the truth and bearing witness to it,” said a reporter for a British media organisation. “It is very easy to lament the coverage and blame the messenger and far more difficult to ask for accountability. But nobody is making things up...”

“The government is being exposed at cremation grounds. If the government could they would have banned the media from cremation grounds...the government has been mute, deaf, and blind. I can’t back down from reporting on the situation.”

From all the videos I have seen so far, it's clear that people at crematoriums WANT TO speak to the media. No family member is upset with media presence. In fact the anger here too is against 'Godi Media' for not showing reality.

What we've seen so far is very different from, say, an Anjana barging into a hospital and screaming at doctors or TV news reporter shoving his mics to wailing family members of soldiers who die in action and asking them if they want 'badla'.

It's been dignified, respectful of those who are mourning and, most importantly, you can't miss the fact that people want to talk to the media here and want the country to know how badly governments have failed them.