tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1994737786002197086.post7220180632011819747..comments2023-10-20T20:13:34.646+05:30Comments on Against the Tide: From Bush to Obama – The Killing will ContinueJoe Pintohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09816903724816351432noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1994737786002197086.post-84602578788444810232008-11-19T14:53:00.000+05:302008-11-19T14:53:00.000+05:30Sir, awaiting the cliche write-up. Also, lots of u...Sir, awaiting the cliche write-up. Also, lots of updates on the blog, check it at your convenienceGauri Gharpurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09887888023298949657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1994737786002197086.post-12582704302093546182008-11-07T17:44:00.000+05:302008-11-07T17:44:00.000+05:30Hi Gauri,I agree with you entirely. The entire rep...Hi Gauri,<BR/><BR/>I agree with you entirely. The entire reportage, right from 18 July 2005 till the culmination in the 2008 trust vote, could have certainly be done in a more common-man friendly manner.<BR/><BR/>In the mainstream media, there was a great deal of what I will repeatedly called "obfuscation". This means an easy issue is deliberately and needlessly made out to be difficult so that people say, "How awesome!" and get intimidated or repelled.<BR/><BR/>The Hindu and Frontline were the only two print publications (I have read) that took a lot of pains to simplify the issue. But because, N. Ram, its editor, is known to be sympathetic to the Left parties, especially the CPI(M), the mainstrean media ignored their views.<BR/><BR/>Besides, the print media in India, led by the TOI, had had already decided that the N-deal was "good" for India's future, simply because signing the deal would suck India into a lasting embrace with the great USA. <BR/><BR/>So the style of presenting the N-deal was two-pronged. First, pack it with so much jargon and technicalities that none but the inner circle of super experts would dare to even try and make sense of the mumbo-jumbo.<BR/><BR/>Second, paint the Left as crazy anti-US dogmatists, so that whatever little sense they spoke would be ignored by the common masses. The Left fell into the trap like silly purists and left the UPA. So whatever little influence the Left could have had was gone. <BR/><BR/>Signing the N-deal was an intrinsic part of the inexorable process of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation (I will label it "LPG" henceforth), that is going on.<BR/><BR/>Even the collapse of the markets is a natural consequence of LPG. Look who is suffering in India! Now that the gamblers and speculators on the share market are sinking, they are rushing to the government for public tax-payer money to rescue them. <BR/><BR/>These are the self-same free-marketeers (US President Roosevelt used to call them "banksters" to rhyme with "gangsters") who are the champions of LPG, when it suits them.<BR/><BR/>Warm regards,<BR/><BR/>- Joe.Joe Pintohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09816903724816351432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1994737786002197086.post-23226039467056488342008-11-06T04:37:00.000+05:302008-11-06T04:37:00.000+05:30Hi JoeFirstly what a lovely intro to your blog! Wo...Hi Joe<BR/><BR/>Firstly what a lovely intro to your blog! Wow!<BR/><BR/>Went through the piece and thanks for the interestng perspective.<BR/><BR/>all the best<BR/><BR/>vinitaVinita Deshmukhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10104498678099059172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1994737786002197086.post-19488334607637373512008-11-05T22:03:00.000+05:302008-11-05T22:03:00.000+05:30much matter to think about.. the links provide a s...much matter to think about.. the links provide a substantial background (and support) to the piece. <BR/><BR/>I slightly digress here and ask you about ambiguos / niche reporting and how to tackle it. <BR/><BR/>Example-- Reporting on the Indo- US Nuclear deal <BR/><BR/>Sir, of all the writings I read abt the nuclear deal ( some very seriously while preparing for the current affairs paper) I could grasp nothing much. again, when the trust motion came up following Left's opposition to the deal--- in spite of wide newspaper and TV coverage--- the core of the matter still seemed alien to me, and many others with whom I confessed my inability to understand the deal in a clear light. <BR/><BR/>It may be my ignorance or lack of reading, but still... Could not the entire reportage, right from July 18 2005 till the culmination in 2008 trust vote, be done in a more common-man friendly manner?Gauri Gharpurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09887888023298949657noreply@blogger.com