Shoulder-riding Indian journo faces the axe
An Indian television journalist who reported on floods in the north of the country while perched on a survivor's shoulders has been sacked, the head of the channel told AFP on Wednesday.
"What he did was very inhuman. You cannot ride on someone's back for a story," said Nishant Chaturvedi, channel head at News Express.
Narayan Pargaien, reporting on the flash floods and landslides in Uttarakhand state, triggered outrage after a video clip went viral on the Internet showing him speaking into the camera while sitting on the shoulders of a local villager.
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