How desperate can you get? Encouraging a man to set himself on fire because you're having a slow news day has got to be the lowest of the low. Of course, the journalists who filmed the incident and beamed it all across India denied the charges:
You know, maybe their story would have been a little more plausible if they hadn't just stood by idly while a man burnt to death. Oh right, they weren't idle - they filmed the entire episode instead of discouraging him, or attempting to extinguish the flames. After all, what's a human life worth these days?
"It's a completely false allegation. It is a ploy by the district police to malign and frame us," said one news television reporter, who preferred to remain unnamed.
You know, maybe their story would have been a little more plausible if they hadn't just stood by idly while a man burnt to death. Oh right, they weren't idle - they filmed the entire episode instead of discouraging him, or attempting to extinguish the flames. After all, what's a human life worth these days?
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