Why all this hype when London is bombed and no hype when some remote town was bombarded with missiles in Iraq or Afghanistan?
This inconsistency really irritates me.
Look at BBC or CNN crying that London is bombed and casuality as 100, when a similar happening in any third-world country is hardly mentioned inspite of the huge casuality. A natural-disastor like Iran-quake or Asian-tsunami will go also go unnoticed.
NDTV with its 24 X 7 channel is also aping its western cousins quite-well! Every channel have their own prefixes for NEWS i.e 'cnn news', 'bbc news', ' 24 X 7 news', 'sun news' etc., funny how news programme and the news-items are getting prefixed with the 'channel name'!
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Sancho....without taking sides....both are condemnable equally. But ofcourse what media reports is what that sells the most. Its sensationalism. We could endlessly debate the right and wrong about this peculiar media behaviour. But in the end they are all corporates that are answerable to their shareholders at the end of the day.
So...morals plays a very little part in all this. Whether its the us media or uk media or the indian media...they are more or less the same.
reg. terrorism, yes, it is the richer life that is more valuable, that is the order of this world.
but reg. [channel name] news channels, i wud say, why not see it as a brand development? Afterall, we do read western marketing and management lessons, don't we?
just saw this. sorry for the dup comment.
BTW, you got it dead wrong on the tsunami coverage. It was big international news for days and days.
==> yes, it has to be agreed that tsunami coverage wasn't neglected. thanks to the world of blogging. they set the trend.
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