Misreporting and misguiding the people may be politically expedient but is a journalistic offence, both in the ethical sense as well as in the sense of professional propriety. Falsities and fabrications are part and parcel of the propaganda machinery in which the Press plays its part to suit the powers that be but such misrepresentation of facts makes a mockery of the very ideal of a free Press whose job is to report events as they happen and not as they are made out to be to suit the political dispensation of the day. Glory unto the news agency that adheres to this journalistic ethic and glory unto such reporters who bring to the fore human misery as they are for their right redress to take place.
Bande Mataram!
P.S. The reason cited in this news clip for Tagore's renouncing the Knighthood is British flogging of Hindu rioters and not British gunfire on an unarmed Baisakhi gathering in the Jallianwala Bagh. So much for the truth of British reporting on colonised India.
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