SENSITIVITIES

The airing of the video showing blurred images of the child cyber pornography victims by a giant TV network dismayed officials and those working on the case against the couple who perpetrated the crime and rightly so.  An official said the video was supposed to be used as evidence by the prosecutors against the couple who exploited their children for profit and copies of it were only provided to three agencies. As it is, the national broadcast media again dropped the ball on a particularly sensitive issue but it’s not the most infamous violation they committed. This is not meant to restrict media coverage—the last thing we want is self-censorship with too many lobby groups and politicians dictating on how media should do their work for their own agenda—but to develop sensitivities to public sentiments, culture and tastes.