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From: kumar@hplabsc.UUCP (Arvind Kumar)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india
Subject: Re: India and the Media
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Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 16:50:34 EST
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The following is a message I received from another person on the
net which is produced below with permission.

From: 
Date: 3 Mar 85 10:53:20 CST (Sun)
Subject: Re: India and the Media

hi. I have been quite annoyed at times at the biased reporting in
the US media. There was, however, a detailed report in a new york
times magazine from a few years ago (I'll be glad to mail you a 
xerox copy if you are interested). This report was very honest...
it described the filth and grime and disease and poverty along with
the VCR's, the gleaming research facilities, the nuclear power, and
the burgeoning middle class, all of which are very  much in evidence
these days.

Which brings up a very interesting hypothesis. Any one who is
not totally blind can see the changes in India.. the number of
cars on the road, the industrial growth, ready availablity of 
consumer goods, the reducing infant mortality rate... the progress
made is newsworthy in itself. Then why the lack of coverage of
the good side of the story ? One answer I have heard from some
of my more paranoid "lefty" friends is that the US media is far
less free than might appear, and is ipso facto under the control
of a  "junta" of people with enormous resources of wealth and influence.
It is in the interest of these people to show up countries that
don't have a free enterprise system as being unsuccessful, and those
that are (korea, taiwan, singapore) as being dynamic, growing,
vital etc. The biased reporting, it is maintained, is evidence
of manipulation by these well-heeled tycoons.

what think you ?