Why are journalists showing grisly visuals of Covid funerals?
Itâs the reality, thatâs why. And no, the foreign media isnât singling India out in reporting from cremation and burial grounds.
âCan we speak a little later?â a photojournalist for the
New York Times asked when we called him late Monday afternoon. âIâm in the midst of shooting a cremation.â
As the Covid death toll continues to
rise, journalists, Indian and foreign, are reporting from cremation grounds and graveyards, seeking to convey the devastation that the second wave of the pandemic has unleashed in India.
The intention, several journalists we spoke with explained, is mainly to put a human face to the cold numbers of death but also to ensure the scale and gravity of the horror isnât hidden through data manipulation and
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