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Newspersons boycott Sourav Ganguly`s press conference
Kolkata, May 14: Newspersons today boycotted a scheduled press interaction with Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly here today alleging harassment by the staff of a hospital.
Kolkata, May 14: Newspersons today boycotted a scheduled press interaction with Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly here today alleging harassment by the staff of a hospital.
A pandemonium broke out when lensmen and electronic media personnel were pushed and shoved aside by hospital staff and outsiders preventing them from covering the scheduled programme at the Apollo Gleneagles Hospital.
Newspersons, who were attending the function on invitation from the hospital management, protested at the treatment meted out to them, but in vain. The hospital staff and private security personnel cordoned off a visibly upset Ganguly without paying any heed to requests of electronic mediapersons and lensmen.
"This is our hospital. We will do as we please," a hospital official yelled at cameramen trying to record the commotion.
The journalists were frisked at four points before they could enter the hospital. Moreover, the poorly organised programme left mediapersons guessing at the exact venue of the press meet with no official to provide information.
In exasperation the members of the fourth estate boycotted the interaction and other programmes that were to follow and left the hospital.
Though the Indian skipper was not at fault, this was the first ever instance of the media boycotting Ganguly's press meet in his home town. Bureau Report
Newspersons, who were attending the function on invitation from the hospital management, protested at the treatment meted out to them, but in vain. The hospital staff and private security personnel cordoned off a visibly upset Ganguly without paying any heed to requests of electronic mediapersons and lensmen.
"This is our hospital. We will do as we please," a hospital official yelled at cameramen trying to record the commotion.
The journalists were frisked at four points before they could enter the hospital. Moreover, the poorly organised programme left mediapersons guessing at the exact venue of the press meet with no official to provide information.
In exasperation the members of the fourth estate boycotted the interaction and other programmes that were to follow and left the hospital.
Though the Indian skipper was not at fault, this was the first ever instance of the media boycotting Ganguly's press meet in his home town. Bureau Report