Wednesday, March 23, 2016

How we all failed to find the truth behind viral video that ruined cop’s life...

“Seeing is believing”, right? Even if it’s happening on video and not in front of your eyes, it’s still right there to see and believe, isn't it? But then we have the JNU row, where it has been claimed that the audio in some of the videos may have been manipulated to say things that weren’t really said.

And you have the case of BJP MLA Ganesh Joshi, where rival versions of the video involving the politician and the horse, Shaktiman, have emerged. Sometimes, though, a video doesn’t need doctoring or creative editing. All it needs is a caption that seems to give you the facts of who, what, where, how and why, or at least some bits of some of these questions.

In August 2015, for instance, a video titled, “Drunk Delhi Police man on Delhi metro – Funny” went viral, with lakhs of views and tens of thousands of shares. The video attracted so much attention that various news outlets, including The News Minute, reported on it. When the policeman was identified, and suspended by the police department, that made news too.

The story was promptly forgotten by everyone except Salim PK, the policeman in it, and his family. Salim appealed the suspension, and after his medical documents were examined, he was reinstated to the police force within two months.

The reason: he wasn’t actually drunk, but was suffering the after-effects of a stroke that he had suffered a couple of years before the night the video was shot. Full story...

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