See Both Sides Of The Story
Saturday, June 16, 2007
The timing couldn't have been better. My last post - "what a week" highlighted my displeasure towards news channels in US. All these years in the US I have been watching Fox News, CNN and some local news channels to get to know the news from different parts of the world. Here's how it looked -
- Their reach was limited to the War in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and Korea. Countries like Russia, India, Japan, Australia that existed when I was back in India were somehow off the charts the very moment I landed here.
- News channels aired scores and snippets not from International sports like Soccer, Cricket, Tennis but from Universal games like Football, Baseball and NBA - winners claiming themselves to be World Champions.
- Stories like Cat rescued by fire fighters, Tiger gives birth to a calf, Man sues laundromat for million bucks are prime time news and there's a panel discussing pros and cons of rescuing the cat.
- Biased opinions and the opaque curtains denied understanding what exactly occurs (occurred) after an incident.
- Witnessed accusations and verbal fights on evening news/interviews and most often the interviewee gave up while the interviewer made a fool out of himself in front of a million viewers.
- Someone who's a Smoker is a big big issue (in this country?) and if that person happens to be a Presidential Candidate - then FORGET ABOUT IT. They will rip him apart.
- Shows like O'Reilly Factor and The Situation Room try to add spice to a news that wouldn't appear even on Page 3 in other parts of the world.
Thanks to BBC World - they announced their entry to the States and that they would try to come up with the other side of the story. This would be great; at least one can get out of the monopoly prevalent out here.
I'm looking forward to it.
Labels: Asia, BBC, CNN, Fox, Media, News, US
Posted by Rajesh @ 2:32 PM; PERMALINK,
4 Shouts:
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At June 18, 2007 7:04 PM,
Mosilager said...
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Awesome post Raju bhai... I only watch comedy central (john stewart) for accurate US News and am lucky enough to have bbc news in the morning when i wake up for world news. rediff and samachar take care of desh and zamnet takes care of zambia so i'm all set.
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At June 19, 2007 8:07 PM,
Rajesh said...
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@ mosilager - Dhanyavaad mosilager bhai ;) .
John Stewart and his Daily show hmm I watch them too ('cause its aired before South park). Rediff n TOI are just tabloids but read the TOI ePaper though. and of course bbc.com until I subscribe to BBC on tv :) -
At June 26, 2007 11:16 AM,
Intruder said...
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WOW !
this is terrifi stuff
thanks a lot for the pain u took to bring this together
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At June 26, 2007 8:50 PM,
Rajesh said...
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@ intruder - thanks macha. no pains dude :P
