On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Deepa Mohan <[email protected]> wrote: > There is often the matter of someone/some event feeding subtle "stories" to > the reporters. A story without having to search for it....with all the > "facts" provided....too good to pass up. It arrives in your email.... a > ready-made news snippet....
You mean like the coverage in the Indian media that goes: "Minister for External Affairs warned the Government of Australia to cease and desist the attacks on Indian students in Australia"[1]. I have been following the coverage and it is depressing to see most of the coverage just being repetition of what S.M. Krishna thundered. No effort seems to be made to investigate what really is happening in Australia. If I were a journalist there are all these great pieces I could write about why there are so many Indian students in Australia, where they come from and why they choose Australia, what they are doing in Australia and why they are vulnerable. I will also get ahold of general crime statistics in Australia and contrast them against the crime against Indians. Right now when I read the news about yet another attack on an Indian cabbie, i am left wondering "Was this isolated? Were there other attacks on the same night?" Thaths [1] As if it is the Government of Australia that is attacking Indians. -- "Marge, you being a cop makes you the man! Which makes me the woman... and I have no interest in that, besides wearing the occasional underwear, which as we discussed is strictly a comfort thing." -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar Chandra Slacker Without Borders
