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From: niyogi@sunybcs.UUCP (Debashish Niyogi)
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Subject: Re: Re: India and the Media
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Date: Tue, 12-Mar-85 18:09:44 EST
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> Sure, and Teddy Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt.  They of course, were
> properly elected.  Nehru, Indira, and Rajiv, for some reason, were not.  When
> the Kennedy mystique gets votes, is what is happening any different from what
> happens when a corresponding thing happens back home?
> 
I don't know how long you have been in the U.S., but your knowledge of U.S.
political history is obviously f***ed up. Teddy and FDR were not father/son
or even brothers, so there was no question of dynastic rule, unlike the case
of Nehru, Indira and Rajiv. And surely you don't deny the fact that a large
(read that LARGE) number of Indians (mostly but not necessarily the 
illiterate ones) vote on the basis of their own sentimental thinking, and
that the deaths of Sanjay Gandhi and Indira Gandhi played a large part (in
sentimental terms) in the massive mandates in favor of Indira and Rajiv
respectively. If you care to read about American history, you will find that
such irrelevant sentiments do not play any significant part in the
presidential elections.

> Is the "****-ed up" media you speak so disparagingly
> about any worse than the media here that projects the myth about America 
> being the "greatest country" on earth (whatever that means).  (Talk about 
> "biased glorification"!)
> 
I don't see why you should be so uptight about Americans calling their
country the "greatest country" in the world. The words "myth" and "biased
glorification" used here cannot be rationally justified, especially in the
light of the fact that India cannot currently make such a claim and justify 
it in any way. Remember that it's not merely the media here in the U.S.
that makes the claim (about the U.S. being the greatest ...), but the media
in most other countries (including, I may add, a section of the media in India).
And personally, I think it's true, too.


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                                                   ---  Debashish Niyogi

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