Indian media was itself a major news item as the Mumbai terror attacks came to a conclusion over the weekend.<\/p>\n
The country\u2019s broadcasters were summoned Friday by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to deal with charges that the live saturation coverage had helped the terrorists. At the same time, however, traditional media were criticized as too slow and inaccurate by legions of \u201ccitizen journalists\u201d\u009d using Internet services such as Twitter and photo site Flickr.<\/p>\n
The deputy commissioner of police argued that the terrorists, who were holed up in two major hotels and became involved in floor-by-floor firefights with police, were gaining tactical information from TV. Using powers under Section 19 of the country\u2019s Cable Television Networks Act, he ordered a blackout of TV news channels.<\/p>\n