While you reported from these trouble locations and it was being shown live on channels across the country, did it ever occur to you, that could be:

The terrorists holed up in there where also watching you
Maybe they could see when the authorities or commandos where closing up on them and hence could change tact because you were their eyes and ears on the grounds
Maybe seeing successful escapes they would take out their anger on hostages in their grasp
Maybe seeing the rabbi’s son had escaped, they were angered enough to shoot the parents – today moshe is an orphan, are you sure your action was not the reason
Maybe seeing that commando’s were now on the roof, their options were getting limited and they were getting desparate
The information of where they were from given evidence picked up from credit cards founds etc. was out there and hence they needed to destroy phone records or any other possible evidence they have with them
Did it ever occur to you that because of your huge presence (how can the authorities discriminate) they could not stop civilians from crowding trouble spots
Did it ever occur to you that because you were so close, the NSGs actions had to be controlled in case the terrorists trained any of their weapons on the media crowd
Did you know that you were the main reason that by standers were there and hence put at risk the entire operations

Most of you will go to sleep thinking you did a great job at your coverage, but think back, are your sure anything you did saved even one life – and think even harder, are you sure your coverage did not cost some people their lives? If I were you, I won’t be so sure.

In a crisis like this what is the media’s role – for certain, the roles you played this time around did not save any lives or help anyone in trouble. Not one of you took the effort to go hospital to hospital and flash names of victims so that relatives knew where to go…. Not one of you urged citizens to donate blood or anything else that was required….. you were nothing but bystanders who did not think twice about capitalizing on the dead or soon to be dead.

Our problems are many, from our lousy politicians, failed political system, crazed people on the loose etc…. but we are even more disadvantage when what should be the voice of the people are nothing but a bunch of people who will compromise any situation for their own selfish commercial reasons.