Shocking! How newspapers brand innocents terrorists

September 27, 2012 15:01

The Jamia Teachers' Solidarity Association's released report on 16 terror case filed by the Delhi police's special cell that ended in acquittal, is an indictment not just of the functioning of the cell, but also of the English press, according to twocircles.net.

It cites examples of reports in leading national dailies such as The Times Of India, The Hindu, The Indian Express, and Hindustan Times, which carried verbatim, often without the use of the word "alleged', the version given by the special cell at press conferences where, the arrested innocents were produced as "hardcore militants".

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