Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan expressed his concerns about the electronic media coverage of the Kolkata flyover collapse, which took 24 lives and left many injured, in an interview published to Mid-Day.
In Kolkata, 22 people have died after the crash. The first feeling for every human being after hearing that is sadness...And the thought that those poor people were just like you and me. But the electronic media won’t let that feeling stay with us for even 40 seconds, because from then on, they have moved on to politicise it, to talk about the prospect of a bomb blast and in the meanwhile, we have all forgotten about those 22 victims, and are busy thinking about whose mistake it is. By the end of the day, it has become something else altogether. We are becoming feelingless in our search for heroes, villains and sensational stories. I watch news shows, so I have stopped watching fiction now.Shah Rukh Khan, Actor
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