Aaj Tak gets slammed for its cringeworthy reenactment of events leading up to Hyderabad gangrape
India’s news TV thrives on high drama, but Aaj Tak went a step too far Tuesday night by reenacting, in the guise of a ground report, the sequence of events leading up to the Hyderabad gangrape and murder case.
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ContributeThe Hindi news channel featured a female reporter riding a red scooter, which she claimed was exactly like the victim’s, to the toll plaza from where the victim is reported to have been abducted. There, she gets off the scooter and walks into an empty lot where the woman was reportedly gangraped by four men.
If this nearly four-minute clip was to be described in one word, it would be “cringeworthy”. Journalists and commentators on Twitter were quick to slam Aaj Tak on their style of reporting.
This is not the first time Aaj Tak anchor has come under the scanner for histrionics.
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