India - World's most populated democracy - conducted a national election in 18 days. The result came out in 24 hours with a stable alliance elected with minimum majority ..
Still, all CNN could do was a weak display of journalism by giving single post of this news in some corner!
Slumdog millionaire was all over CNN when it won Oscar.
Don't you see the western 'selective blindness' when it comes to India?
If you follow multiple news agencies/magazines, you can notice this very well. No media is impartial. No media is priority-less.
CNN celebrated when Mr.Zardari got "elected" as President of Pakistan. I was like "What?!". Why would anyone care for this guy or his flirting with Sarah Palin. I don't understand who determines what's important enough to come in the top of the list. When it comes to Western media, probably the alliances the home country has with rest of the world plays the role. And eastern media is a lot more influenced by regional politics/religion than national agenda.
End of the day, today's Media has gone 'selective blind' and it sucks!
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Another instance - Last week Delhi HC amended Article 377 that criminilises gay relation and allowed same-sex relations constitutionally.
ReplyDeleteCNN didn't seem to know about this. Not a single word.
And today they report this stupid piece - http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/03/india.pig.religious.riot/index.html
A pig, hindu and muslim - sounds like 1940s? Yeah, that's precisely where CNN wants to countries like India to be stuck on!
i would say BBC is a little less blind than others. Their website is a lot more rounded than most other news sites i have seen.
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