"In India, fears about the experiment spread rapidly through the media" - Reuters & quoted verbatim by MSNBC

"But in deeply religious and superstitious India…" - Reuters & quoted verbatim by MSNBC

What kind of stupid yellow journalism is this?

Who gave Reuters the right to categorize and denigrate a whole country based on its incorrect and biased views?

As an Indian, I deeply resent this piece of yellow journalism from Reuters.

Yellow journalism, in short, is biased opinion masquerading as objective fact. Moreover, the practice of yellow journalism involved sensationalism, distorted stories, and misleading images for the sole purpose of boosting newspaper sales and exciting public opinion. It was particularly indicative of two papers founded and popularized in the late 19th century

Yellow journalism is journalism that downplays legitimate news in favor of eye-catching headlines that sell more newspapers. It may feature exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering, sensationalism, or unprofessional practices by news media organizations or journalists.

The job of a journalist is to report facts and only facts. The facts in this case was that a simple village girl was mislead by media (yellow journalism) into believing that the world was coming to an end. The media incorrectly highlighted speculations by some doomsayers without highlighting the negation of their views by reputed scientists. As a result a poor young women decided to end her life.

So yellow journalism by Indian press took one life in Bhopal and yellow journalism by Reuters managed to denigrate the whole country by telling the world that India as a whole is a "deeply superstitious" country! Bravo Reuters!

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