Letter to BS: Indian news channels are busy fostering hatred and negativity

The incidents of violence have traumatised the nation and raised a question mark over the role the news channels could have played by moderating the whole fiasco

This refers to “The fires that Indian news television lit” (December 18). The author has rightly pointed out the pitfalls that the Indian television media currently faces and how the whole purpose of its existence is being defied. If a picture is worth a thousand words then going by McQuivey’s Forrester study, a video would be worth 1.8 million words. This explains why the reach of television is way more than that of newspapers. Despite the far-reaching impact the news channels can have, they are busy fostering hatred and negativity. In the past few years, the Indian economy has witnessed