I was again shocked to see a major Bangladeshi television channel reporting a microbus accident in Gazipur on 23 July. I don't understand why the television channels in Bangladesh keep on failing to care for the sensitive and weak-hearted or even for the children who might be watching the television. It was appalling to see the news camera covering the half-charred and half burnt body of one of the victims. I was also surprised that no one had the least sense of decency in showing respect to the unknown victim who was once someone's loved one. It appeared no one even bothered to put off the smouldering fire which was very much ablaze on the dead-man's body. Instead of being active in bringing the dead-man's burning body on our television screen, the television crew should have rather initiated the humane effort to put off the blaze from the body and that would have been more civilised.
In the UK, the television newscasters caution the viewers of even flash photography on any news coverage of superstars and we still often falter to care for basic human norms in Bangladeshi news channels.
I do not wish to shudder while watching Bangladeshi television channels any more and would hope that the respected news moderators of these television channels would abide by basic international standards of news coverage.
The sudden influx of cable television channels have recruited many enthusiastic and sometimes challenging and brave news reporters but we should also be attentive to training the crew with the code of conduct relating to news coverage.