Media hypocrisy of Bdnews24.com

This five year old child had his wrist blown up, seriously injured and is in life threatening condition, due to excessive bleeding. The incident happened in Rajshahi Awamileague office today when Mahidul Islam, a five year old child crawled up stairs of the office and picked up a Molotov cocktail found there apparently believing it to be a toy to play with it. On touch it impacted with a loud blast that severed the child’s wrist and fingers of both feet and hand. He is alive, but the doctors said that he is not out of danger. Immediately after the blast, Awamileague blamed it on Bangladesh Jamat Shibir, though the Molotov cocktail was found in Awami Office. This is not surprising as quite often the Awamileague uses this strategy to blame their misdeeds on the opposition, and the Media plays an important part in this hypocrisy.

 

BDnews24 is said to be one of those Awami supported media that quite often either inflates or deflates news of Bangladesh in favour of Awamileague. If you look at today’s headline of this incident, one would clearly see from the title that they have away to deflate the seriousness of the incident. Instead of more striking headlines, they wrote, ‘Child hurt in Rajshahi blast’ this headline in itself is crafted to minimise the seriousness of the blast, although the child has lost his wrist, fingers and seriously has other burns all over his body. Even in their narrative of the story they found away to mitigate Awami criminality and create doubt in the mind of their readers that this could only have been the work of Jamat Shibir. This kind of yellow journalism is revoltingly rampant in Bangladesh that it is hard for a reader to distinguish from truth and false unless someone flips over number of other media to get an idea of the truth. It is sad to see that what should have been the eyes and ears of the nation has become a means by which the rulers find away to get away with their crimes.