Sunday, June 30, 2013

TV news reporter climbs on flood victim in India to report a news story; gets fired.


The Indian TV news reporter Narayan Pargaien of Indian's News Express TV news channel has been fired after he climbed on a flood victim to report his story about flooding in India.

Narayan Pargaien blames his cameraman and says the cameraman was trying to "sabotage" him when he reported flooding in Uttarakland where 1 000 people had died.

Narayan Pargaien climed on a flood victim who've lost everything and was wobbling under the TV news reporter's weight to do his TV story.

"You cannot ride on someone's back for a story," says Nishant Chaturvedi, News Express boss who called the behaviour of the TV reporter "inhuman". "We terminated him on Tuesday."