Promoting fear of community dogs is not journalism.
It is propaganda.
And it has real consequences. Mickey paid one of them. Not just 1 Mickey, many innocent alikes.
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Dogs don't run corruption.
Dogs don't pollute rivers. Dogs don't commit crimes against women.
Yet they are the ones being demonised on prime time news. Media mafia runs the show. Makes the calls- who funds this hatred?
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Air pollution kills 16 lakh Indians a year. Road accidents kill 1.7 lakh.
But the headline is: stray dogs are a menace.
The real menace is being ignored, wonder why? What's the motive?
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A court that cares about justice must reckon with the real-world impact of its orders.
The SC order on community dogs has had a real-world impact.
It is called Mickey.
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Some news channels can't find budget to cover animal cruelty.
But dog hatred propaganda? That gets prime time.
Media should inform. Not incite.
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India has platforms, laws, and a press council.
None of them currently treat anti-animal incitement as a serious issue.
Change the standards. Before the next one.
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@thevirdas Why cant strays be safe on the streets! When I am late at night, I know the walk from bus stop to home is safe because 5 strays walk with me to home! Rocky & his team are my guard! We can have assaulters thieves murderers on the road loose but not dogs who genuinely try to help?
The SC order on community dogs must be read alongside Mickey's case.
Not as coincidence. As context.
Legal language shapes behaviour. This order shaped the behaviour that killed Mickey.
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That's Mickey.
A dog loving and peaceful from Raheja Exotica, Madh Island, Mumbai.
But the truth needs to be told.
Mickey was allegedly beaten to death and discarded as though his life meant nothing.
People often ask why animal cruelty matters.
Because violence against the vulnerable matters.
Because cruelty matters.
Because a society that looks away from brutality loses a part of its humanity.
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If the media covered animal cruelty with the same intensity that it covers stray dog attacks, perpetrators would face public scrutiny, accountability, and consequences.
Instead, far too often, the victims are blamed, the cruelty is minimized, and the perpetrators disappear from the headlines.
That is not an accident.
It is an editorial choice.
And it is the wrong one.
A society cannot claim to oppose violence while selectively looking away from it.
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