The Hindu Business Line : <I>Channelled ire? </I>

Media persons covering the agitation at Hero Honda's plant near Gurgaon were taken aback when the agitating workers refused to come out from the factory premises to talk to them. Asked for their side of the story, the workers were adamant that a particular Hindi news channel should be present and air their version, live.

Irked by the preference for a particular channel, the assembled journalists explained that they too represented reputed print and electronic media with wide circulation and viewership and that the workers' point of view would reach an audience wider than that of the news channel they wanted.

Some more exchanges and it became clear that the workers were not exactly enamoured of that particular channel. On the contrary, they were angry with it because early in the day a woman reporter from that channel had arrived on the scene, made the workers march in front of the factory raising slogans and then made them repeat the performance at least twice, saying that the initial shots were not perfect.

Having `performed' for the channel, the workers eagerly monitored its telecast throughout the day, but alas, the item did not figure at all in the repeated telecasts. Hence, their demand that this particular news channel should do a live telecast.

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