C'da,
>But seriously, the role of the media is NOT to censor news. It is to disseminate it.
Which is true. The BIG if is that the media has to 'confirm' sources that it quotes. Normally what we hear is ' a spkesperson called in' about the bandh, and THAT is enough for the media to give wide publicity?
In fact, sitting here in the US, you can probably call for an Assam Bandh (because, say St. Louis doesn't have the same weather as the South West). All you have to do is call up our unsuspecting media and tell them that you have declared an Assam Bandh and that you are from the TKHEC (Tita-Kerela Hybrid Experimentation Center) - and you would have a near 100 % success.
Why? Because the media will not recheck the facts. This news from St. Louis is as good as any to fill the newsprint.
And the good people of Assam will thank you profusely because you gave them another holiday :)
--Ram
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