Daily Archives: 1 November 2008

‘Media hysteria turning a whole nation neurotic’

The Kannada writer and thinker, Prof U.R. Anantha Murthy, on the Indian media’s role in whipping up “mass hysteria” through its breathless coverage of the recent terror attacks and the arrest of the suspects behind them: “When any arrest is made for suspected terrorism, you invariably hear a Muslim name. Then you are told that…