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Mumbai terror: Media under fire for frenzy
Fri, Dec 19, 2008
The Straits Times

By Ravi Velloor, South Asia Bureau Chief

MRS LYNNE Shaw and her husband Kenneth from Wales have recently known two types of terror.

One is from cowering in a hotel room, with sadistic gunmen roaming freely outside and shooting down Westerners at will. The other is switching on the TV only to find that news channels are broadcasting details about the Shaws' precise location.

'The terrorists were watching television, and they took the lift down from where they were after hearing about us on TV.


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