Monday, January 12, 2009

Media Reporting on HIV-infected blood as a murder weapon

Media reporting can and often is insensitive. The Times of India ran an article sometime last week, talking about how 'spurned perverts' infect their hated ones with HIV-infected blood. We like the fact that you called them perverts, TOI, but was it necessary to give the details. Many wannabe perverts are probably sharpening their syringes, having taken notes from your article. I am not a news person, and I don't have any suggestion for how you should report this kind of news. But it should not be anything that puts any such dangerous idea in anybody's head.

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