Caution needed

An editorial in Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamana has criticised the way Indian media covered the hanging of 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon. Slamming newspapers that published an alleged conversation between blast mastermind and Yakub's brother Tiger Memon and his mother before Yakub was hanged, the editorial said underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, who coordinated the bombings, had become a source of television rating points (TRP) for the media and that it was not right to turn him into a "super hero" for the sake of TRPs. The editorial said it was unfortunate that India was living in fear of terrorist threats while the US, which launched an attack on the hideout of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan and eliminated him, didn't have to face another terrorist strike after that.