I mostly tracked all the news regarding the Mumbai blasts online via Twitter (i am @fossiloflife there) and CNNIBN live streaming. Via Twitter I realised how much we all hated the media for there bad coverage of the Mumbai attacks. It was all a desperate attempt to ge viewership of the soap hungry Indian public. The people who went through all the turmoil, where expecting peace, the media was ready to cross question them on every account and turn, with questions like… Did you see the terrorists? How many terrorists are there? Are your loved ones still stuck there? How did you manage to escape? so on and so forth.. Was it required? I don’t think it made even a bit of sense for the media to keep harassing the victims. Across twitter updates there where three echoes which where common to all of us…
1) What was happening in Mumbai was bad.
2) What media was doing was more pathetic.
3) What on earth were the politicians doing on the scene?
This was one event which actully brought the Social Media in India to Age.Though the actual term of being a Citizen Jurno was missing. There where very few who were reporting from and around the scene, @vinu, being one of them, who shot to fame cos of his bringing to life pictures and Twitter updates. Rest were all picking up media reports. There where Tweets regarding every single article and blog post found at that moment cos everyone wanted a real account of what actually was happening. There were emergency numbers flashing all across Twitter, so were msgs to help. Oh that reminds me, WHY ON EARTH WAS MEDIA AT ALL WORRIED ABOUT CRICKET? AND ALSO HOW DID IT MATTER AT ALL WHEN INDIA WAS UNDER ATTACK, IT WAS NOT MUMBAI, IT WAS INDIAN INTEGRITY WHICH WAS ATTACKED!
Now as of now the death toll has reached 195+ and injured being 300+, and who knows what the final numbers will be?
What actually stands apart in these attacks are the complete failure of the intelligence establishment, brilliant planning and implementation by the terrorists (am not praising the terrorists, but the truth is they have fooled everyone of us from every angle, we didn’t even know how many of them are there YET). Mumbai lost few of its most brilliant officers, India’s most most elite force also lost it’s officer, but in all that they managed to save 100’s of lives.
So who where the actual hero’s? the NSG? the ARMY? the POLICE? the PUBLIC? otr the HOTEL STAFFS?
Who ever says anything for me the actual two hero’s are the HOTEL STAFF and the PUBLIC! The hotel staff cos they didn’t cross the line of panic and leave the guest in middle of the terror attack, they guided each on to safety, if alone they had not done what they did, we would be still counting bodies. The public cos they kept there cool. A real hats off to these section of people. Then who can forget the NSG? hats off to them too… and coming to why i rate the hotel staff above all is, they did what they could the best way they could facing the fire power with BRAINS 
The Indian spirit arises here cos of the sentiment it echoed through each and single one of us, for making us think on a better tomorrow, for making us love each other more.
To all politicians, just a request, don’t start the usual blame game, work together, find a solution, that’s why you guys are elected.And to the media, stop selling real life sentiments, put some ethics into your work.
AND SALUTE TO MUMBAI FOR LOOKING TALL!
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