1. Bangladesh media is in a serious conundrum. Lets put to one side the pro-Awami League/government media who would anyway not touch Al Jazeera's programme for ideological reasons.

2. The professional/independent media - Daily Star, Prothom Alo, Dhaka Tribune, New Age etc - know that this is a hell of a journalistic story, but fear the consequences of reporting on it. They fear the army/govt would close them down - ending the jobs of hundreds of employees.

3. For any Bangladesh editor this must be a real concern - an understandable one. When one talks about Bangladesh government's repressive activities and authoritarianism - it does have real meaning.

4. However, at the same time, the Bangladesh media's failure to report on this story is resulting in people questioning the integrity of the media and journalists along with it - meaning, I suggest, a serious loss of credibility.

5. This may be unfair - but people do look to the media in moments like this to make sense of things.

6. Easy to say from outside Bangladesh, I know, but the editors of the papers need to get together and find a way of all writing about it together, in order to avoid the real risk of being individually targeted.