Keep violence out of media, says Fernandes

NEW DELHI, APRIL, 17: Defence Minister George Fernandes today said electronic media was glorifying and promoting violence while addressing...

NEW DELHI, APRIL, 17: Defence Minister George Fernandes today said electronic media was glorifying and promoting violence while addressing a workshop on `Human Security and Curb on Small Arms’organised by Network for Child Development, an NGO, here.

"Television and films these days educate children in violence and it seems the more number of people the hero kills, the greater hero he is," said Fernandes.

The very concept of toys has changed these days, he added, pointing out that earlier toys were mostly that of animals, but now they are all guns and tanks and video games in which the score is the number of people "killed".

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The Minister asked the media to introspect and stop promoting violence.

"Media should show heroes as promoting peace, not violence," agreed the leading Pakistani social activist and peasant leader Tahira Mazhar Ali.

Dispelling notions that the common Pakistani National is virulently anti-India and the people as a whole promote the so called "gun culture," she said her country was in fact a victim of its own small arms industry.

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