



"You'd never guess what happened next ..." circulating on social media to increase user interest. But can you guess "what happens next" when India's top hindi newspaper reports a Reporting in this age is less about truth and more about clicks. You see many click-baiting articles with headlines likecirculating on social media to increase user interest. But can you guess "what happens next" when India's top hindi newspaper reports a brutal tragedy of rape-crime with a sleazy headline ? Nothing.





This story is of a girl from Uttar Pradesh who was raped by upper-class boys and then a video was made and circulated. Her father happened to catch some boys watching the video and reported the matter to police, panchayat and nothing happened. They in turn, asked him to keep his daughter at home and not send her to school, as other girls may get affected by her "character". It's an old case, the culprits are still free because of our pathetic judicial system. Her father died of grief.

And how do the editors of Navbharat Times chose to present this story?

With a sleazy headline (which translates to, "when a father saw the porn of his daughter's rape") which at the first glance equates the rape of a minor to porn. Then presents her dead father like some pervert. All for clicks. And if it does them get them clicks, what does it say about the readers who need a perverted-incentive to click on a story?





Is it not the same media which howls the loudest when the political class utters those insensitive statements? Should this hypocrisy be spared? This particular report and many like it are not human mistake, or one person's opinion, it is a carefully executed editorial policy for more traffic. How is it any different from those politicians we love to hate so much?