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When the Monkey made news, but the mission didn't

New Delhi, Oct 17 (UNI) It was only when a monkey died that the media finally arrived. "Good news doesn't get coverage. Bad news does," said senior journalist A.J. Philip, recalling how a school run by his NGO, Deepalaya, caught the headlines, not for educating hundreds of rural children, but because a baby monkey had drowned in its water tank.
"Four of our staff were arrested. That story was everywhere. But when we transformed an entire village, no one reported it," he said. His narrative drew uneasy laughter — and deeper reflection, at a discussion on ' The Social Sector and the role of Media' held yesterday at the India Habitat Centre in collaboration with Prayas, a Delhi-based Juvenile Aid Centre.
The irony of that monkey story set the tone for an evening of self-examination among journalists, educators, and social sector leaders. K.G. Suresh, Director General of the India Habitat Centre (IHC) and a veteran journalist, opened the discussion. "Thanks to commercialisation and corporatisation of media, the space for the social sector has considerably reduced," he said. Once the moral conscience of society, the press today, he argued, "has little time for the voiceless."
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