Ordeal by Fire in the Killing Fields of Gujarat

Editors Guild of India Fact-Finding Mission Report

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Ordeal by Fire in the Killing Fields of Gujarat

Editors Guild of India
Fact-Finding Mission Report

AAKAR PATEL,
DILEEP PADGAONKAR,
B.G.VERGHESE

New Delhi, May 3, 2002

CONTENTS

1. Preface

Terms of Reference
Acknowledgements

2. Overview

3. Freedom and Responsibility

4. The Godhra Episode

5. The Fuse is Lit

6. Sandesh: “Something happened”

7. The Gujarat Samachar Story

8. Other Gujarati Papers

9. Meeting with Narendra Modi

10. Story as told by Gujarat Government Press Notes

11. Criticism of the “Secular Media”

12. The Other Side of the Fence

TV and Radio Networks
Local Electronic/Cable Networks
Pamphlets and Handbills
Digital Media
Rumours

13. Attacks on the Media

14. Textbooks and Warped Mindsets

15. Media Codes and Ethics

16. Recommendations

17. Two major negatives

18. What Now ?