Victim Of Mumbai Terrorist Attacks Claim CNN Put Them In Danger
And their claim certainly seems valid to me:
Lynne and Kenneth Shaw, of Penarth, warned that terrorists were listening in to the media to pinpoint Western victims.
Mrs Shaw claimed the American cable TV channel had broadcast details of where they were at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. . . .
From her home in Penarth yesterday, Mrs Shaw said: “We have been asked by the British terror police not to talk to the press.
“But the reason I would not want to talk to anyone is because our safety was actually compromised by CNN, which broadcast where we were.
“The terrorists were watching CNN and they came down from where they were in a lift after hearing about us on television. For that reason I would appeal to the media to be very careful about what they broadcast.
“When we left Mumbai there were still around 100 people trapped there.”
She added: “People talk to one another on mobile phones and that gets broadcast and the terrorists knew from that.”
At some point these media types need to remember that their reporting - with all its sensationalism and bias - ultimately impacts real people in real life. And that impact is more important than any ratings boost they could get by reporting something they know would bring undue harm to someone else.
