BTV News ‘drowns’ anchor with special effects to show severity of #KarnatakaFloods

Yesterday, BTV News, a Kannada news channel, uploaded a 30-second segment on its official Facebook page. The video shows an anchor reporting on Karnataka floods. The anchor can be seen standing in a flooded area in neck-deep water, and a dam in the background—created with special effects. This was the channel’s attempt to show how lives of people in North Karnataka were drowning, as the anchor explains.

“People’s efforts are not helping much. The lives of the people in North Karnataka are drowning. You can see my state and how I’m drowning. The same way, the people’s situation is also sinking. They are drowning fully,” she says. At this point, the anchor also sinks, with only her hands above the water level, shaking as if asking for help.

The headline states: “Water has drowned my life. This is the bad state of the torrent.”