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08 Apr 17
Everytime something remotely bad happens in India its reported by the bbc. Im not debating whether or not the articles are true or not but a lot worse things are happening in many other countries than a little girl being found 'living with monkeys' and a dairy farmer beaten up.
08 Apr 17
Originally posted by Trev33Britain has a large Indian population.
Everytime something remotely bad happens in India its reported by the bbc. Im not debating whether or not the articles are true or not but a lot worse things are happening in many other countries than a little girl being found 'living with monkeys' and a dairy farmer beaten up.
They expect them to be interested in news-worthy items about the homeland.
I presume.
10 Apr 17
Originally posted by Trev33Hmmm... Sucks to be a country singled out for bad press when your problems are relatively minor compared to much of the world.
Everytime something remotely bad happens in India its reported by the bbc. Im not debating whether or not the articles are true or not but a lot worse things are happening in many other countries than a little girl being found 'living with monkeys' and a dairy farmer beaten up.
I wonder if the UN ever does that.
10 Apr 17
Originally posted by Trev33They don't like the curry in the Tandori chicken?
Everytime something remotely bad happens in India its reported by the bbc. Im not debating whether or not the articles are true or not but a lot worse things are happening in many other countries than a little girl being found 'living with monkeys' and a dairy farmer beaten up.
10 Apr 17
Originally posted by Trev33The poms just like rubbing the Indians noses in it that ever since they were kicked out, things have been the same.....
Everytime something remotely bad happens in India its reported by the bbc. Im not debating whether or not the articles are true or not but a lot worse things are happening in many other countries than a little girl being found 'living with monkeys' and a dairy farmer beaten up.
10 Apr 17
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Originally posted by Trev33Do you have actual statistics on this? Or do you have a particular interest in India and so only notice stories about India?
Everytime something remotely bad happens in India its reported by the bbc. Im not debating whether or not the articles are true or not but a lot worse things are happening in many other countries than a little girl being found 'living with monkeys' and a dairy farmer beaten up.
Remember that news is strongly biased by language so we need to compare stories from India with stories from other English speaking countries. Then we need to ask about population and number of resident reporters. I think you will find the BBC has maybe one resident reporter in Zambia so not too many stories from there.
Also remember racism. News is strongly biased by skin colour, with news from Africa being largely ignored by most 'Western' nations.
You don't hear much from Kyrgyzstan because of:
1. Language barriers.
2. Politically we imagine it as part of Russia (or more likely simply don't know it exists).
3. It probably has a relatively small media industry.
Those are guesses, because I know very little about the place. There was a landslide there recently and they mentioned the village but its not on any maps, nor could I find it on Google.