Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 9/27/83; site hplabsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!hplabsc!kumar From: kumar@hplabsc.UUCP (Arvind Kumar) Newsgroups: net.nlang.india Subject: Re: India and the Media Message-ID: <2457@hplabsc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 16:50:34 EST Article-I.D.: hplabsc.2457 Posted: Thu Mar 7 16:50:34 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Mar-85 06:20:30 EST Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA Lines: 32 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 ?