NEWS IN BRIEF - TERRORISM

A heated debate on NDTV show 'Is it time to debate the death penalty' finally reached a conclusion. All the experts unanimously agreed to 25000 as a minimum number of death toll by terrorist to consider as a death penalty from him.

All the experts said "We are agreed to the number 25000 which shows a mild intensity of terrorist attack and therefore a Judge can start whether to consider the case for death penalty. Our suggestion is echoed by our great and honorary investors from Gulf in Indian media."

The debate started after NDTV considered terrorist Ajmal Kasab's mercy plea before hanging when he said "Allah kasam, maaf kar do. Chhod do, aisi galti dobara nahin hogi." Anchor said that her eyes were wet when she saw the news.

The panelists also suggested that if the death number is below 200, the terrorist should let go to his home considering the negligible or very small harm to the society.

"Why should we take the law made by the God? Let him sort the things out in the heaven or hell," said an associate editor of The Hindu, who was present in the debate.

Sources said that before reaching to conclusion the anchor received a phone call from Saudi Arabia.

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However, many other journalists and editors gave same comments creating copy right issue

City news editor from a famous news channel expressed his displeasure and huge amount of sadness over Kasab's execution and also showed that entire news media support the innocent Kasab for getting injustice by the Indian Government. He expressed his views in line with other city based journalists, editors and reporters who expressed their displeasure on Kasab's death.

Seating in a bar with a glass of Old Monk, the City News Editor, representing one of the top News Channels of India said "Why did Government execute him? That poor and innocent baby, why did it take such an extreme step?"

Taking each and every sip of Old Monk with heavy heart, the editor said "Killing common man is so common and acceptable even by a terrorist, but why special guy like Kasab who just visited India (sob sob)?"

The comment came in line with the reactions from many editors and India's news media journalists who expressed their immense displeasure on the justice of execution.

IBN Lokmat editor Nikhil Wagle said "Kasab gone, but the world is full of extremists and idiots." Former Executive Editor of The Hindu, Malini Parthasarathy, said "Kasab hanged. How does legal sanction for retaliatory murder redeem the savagery of what is in essence an "eye for an eye" act of revenge?" (Special Note: Indian Government took a note on Malini's statement and is recommended for Noble Peace Prize).

According to FirstPost, writer and activist Meena Kandasamy was acidulous when she said: "feel sorry for the Indian tricolour. heartfelt condolences" while Newsweek International editor Tunku Varadarajan alluded to the paradoxical delivery of justice in the country: "India hangs man responsible for killing hundreds of Mumbaikars days after it lauds man responsible for killing thousands". His hashtags in the tweet were the giveaway as to whom he referred to.

However, City Editor said that he was original in his thought and always felt sorry for Kasab inside his thought. He also raised copy right related issues and told that the originality is important. Even while words can be different if the theme is copied it should also be considered as breach of copy right.

He said "These people copied my theme."

Giving his grave smile, he said "That Malini Parthasarathy is totally copy paste editor what the fu*k eye for an eye thing. Boss I give you original stuff. A terrorist can rape me, he can strip me and he also can kill me but don't take revenge, don't punish him and late him live peacefully."

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Special courses in Extortion and Blackmailing in demand

After creating a dumb impression among the top Indian news channels, Zee TV has become a significant example for avoiding stupid people in the work force. Many Indian news channels said that they plan to select the candidates which are extraordinarily skillful in recognising trap,  effectively and intelligently handling the 'extortion' and 'blackmailing' and great skills to become invisible at a time when somebody is holding secret camera on them.

"Zee's example is a total eye washer for us," said Prannoy Roy, Executive Co-Chairperson of NDTV.

He said "We will be more and more cautious now in selecting candidate. How is it possible that somebody of the caliber of editor gets trapped while asking for some small extortion money? That's too ridiculous to hear. I really feel slapping Zee's Editor who caught on a camera, what he had to do with the other guys. Stupid guy yaar."

Roy blamed Zee News Editor Sudhir Chaudhary and Zee Business Editor Samir Ahluwalia for showing dumbness and exposing the lucrative business side of the Indian media.

"Candidate will have to undergo stringent test of my 'Aap ki Adalat' kind of interview, going forward. Then only we will elect him as an editor or journalist," said Rajat Sharma of India TV.

He said "Otherwise, we will not keep the speed of the breaking news that we show every 5 minutes."

Media is also expected to select candidates from IIMs and IITs which have power to get change their faces or scanner in their head which identifies the sting cameras or even ability to get invisible whenever somebody starts secret camera. Channels are also demanding special course in Extortion and Blackmailing from these institutes.

"Only after identifying on such merits, we will select the candidate," said Rajdeep Sardesai, Chief Editor of CNN IBN.

The media is also shocked after the world saw their secret side of legitimate revenues from extortion and blackmailing. Media is also questioning whether it was right to show every segment of revenue, which is not really mandatory these days, according to SEBI.