Close on the heels of the media debacle of the 60 hour Mumbai attacks, India’s News Broadcasters Association, a conglomeration of India’s leading news agencies has come together to (hopefully) prevent a repeat performance in the future. [TOI]

The guidelines direct members of the media:

not to disclose details of hostages and withholding sensitive information on rescue operations

to avoid live contact with victims and with security personnel engaged in security operations

to exercise their judgment by not airing details of identity and number of hostages and refrain from reporting or commentary that gives the impression of sympathizing with terrorists

They should also include the following:
-to date their information and not report an incident from yesterday as “breaking news”
-not to report rumors
-not to steal news/pictures from blogs and other media and anoint it as an “exclusive”

Any more you can think of?

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