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To the Editor...
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A TV Folly'
Sir, I've gone through your editorial A TV Folly' in your 17th Oct issue. I can't help writing a few Unes about it. Few of my old acquaintances are working with TV News. So I was also one of them who took the trouble of making calls to BTV News for Its folly In editing or handling our Prime Minister's performance of Omrah in their 8 o'clock news. Was It an advertent mistake (as old habits die hard ) or an Inadvertent one?
Anyway, it was Interesting to learn the fact from BTV Newsroom that could be succinctly put here. The producer who was reportedly in charge of editing Begum Khaleda Zia's Omrah performance is quite a new hand in that. However, the real trouble came for him when his boss allegedly approached him with a suggestion hke that — "Keep all the shots. We spend a lot of money for the feed".... And after a while yet another ordeal said to have awaited him when his boss reappeared — this time reportedly quoting some ministerial instructions -that alongwlth the visual, sound should also go on air. Thereafter the concerned producer must have sapped his own individual sense of Judgement and'thought he would be on safe side if he edited it the way his predecessors did and then followed that loose autocratic editing of our democratically elected PM. The sensible viewers reacted sagely.
Now who is to blame? The producer or the chief News
Editor who coordinates the whole bulletin or the Director of News who heads the Rampura office of the special envoy of the Information Minister, the DDG?
Another lapse made by the BTV news officials was telecast by the BTV News Itself on the previous day. It went like this — There was no official representation from BTV News to receive the AsiaVlslon award for their excellent and timely coverage and speed". The ceremony was held in Kuala Lumpur recently. Are they sluggish in contrast to their said news speed?
I am glad to know that an inquiry committee is reported to have been formed regarding this matter. The cause of BTVs frequent folly should be found as soon as possible before there hardly comes any recurrence of this error.
Ahsan uzzaman
78/C. Gulshan Avenue Dhaka
Post-war responsibility
Sir, Bangladesh's independence war ended 20 years ago, yet an undesirable but mass spoken 'Issue' is still being kept operative by addressing one RaJakar' by another. For the freedom, those who fought the fight, are freedom fighters (FFs) and those inside the country, helped Pak-army, are termed as collaborators. The sudden war started unplanned, and as such it was very difficult to see and say about the roll played by each
and every body clearly. Only those, who found no way to live in Bangladesh, first crossed the boarder, then categorical fleeing took place. Many of them turned FFs and fought the fierce battle and fortunately freed the country. The nation is proud of them. Their sacrifice will remain ever bright in the hearts of us all.
Whatever might be the reasons in favour of those who appear to have acted against the FFs, tt is clear that the collaborators' activities were nothing but sabotageous and heinous. But not all the suspects are 'collaborators' or 'Rajakars' in reality. And for the greater Interest of a poor country like Bangladesh this sort of ene-mtty such as calling one RaJakar' by another within the same nation must no longer be allowed to prevail. Enemlty weakens both the parties, and unity strengthens the nation as a whole. The very proverb, "respect begets respect," may be taken as a lesson to follow by both the parties. Enemlty, Jealousy and hatred never help anybody. Now, if we are patriots, we must work with responsibility, and to do that, we must learn to love and respect others.
It must be borne in mind that only bringing Independence is not enough. Responsibilities for the safety, security and prosperity of the country are also equally Important, and ensure that fellow-feeling and co-operation work as precondition. In discharging this responsibility, everybody must work hand in hand and shoulder to shoulder, forgetting all the bitterness that emerged in the wake of Liberation War or otherwise in the past. Some people were decidedly bad and were war-criminals, who have either already been killed or fled to other countries. The rests arc none but the sons of this soil. Let us come forward with great
open hearts.
Keeping this difference between the two parties, we have walked a long way in 20 years, but could not help our country to develop significantly. Love for country is shown not by mere words but by effective works. What we see now Is difference of opinion and intolerance due to which hundreds of political parties have evolved and opposed groups are fighting and killing each other's workers. So long this 'difference' will prevail, we cannot expect any thing better. We must want an end to IL
FMA Matin
11-C, 11/2/4 Mfrpur. Dhaka
Bangalee superwoman
Sir, Who says "Bangalee women are lagging behind"? Average Bangalee woman Is no longer shy. modest, conservative housewife having overcome many phobias by now and has been disproving ageold concepts of Weaker Sex one after another.
Flying an airplane used to be a men's risky job, but to a Bangalee woman flying a DC 10-30 was a task equivalent to assaulting ML Everest until 27 September 1991 when a Bangladeshi female pilot landed as the "first woman in Asia" to have flown a wide-body Jet.
Like babysitting, western women have been experimenting In the outer space, which Is encouraging women flyers around the world today. Likewise, this jetting performance of the Bangladeshi mother-aviator has given the nation's pride a somooth-as-sllk take-off, as has boosted the ballooning hopes of Bangladeshi womenfolk who are overlooked as unsuitable for a cockpit because of gender 8*P-
M. Rahman
Mymenitngh 2200