>Finding this historical visit gleaming across the top headlines > of all major Indian papers online, I tried to look for similar shades in the > US newspapers. Unfortunately, failing to find any headline even vaguely > relevant to this event,
Totally untrue. Yesterday, the Karl Rove factor took over. It was during the joint press conference (The PM the Bush) that a question about Karl Rove came up Both NYT and Wash. Post had the visit in headlines today. In the Washington Post, this was today's headlines http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/18/AR2005071801646.html Same with the NYT http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/19/politics/19prexy.html?hp&ex=1121832000&en=cbc39e2f9b87cdcc&ei=5094&partner=homepage Not that it matters, but the author's gripe seems to have hinged on the preimise that US media totally ignored the visit. On 7/19/05, Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Take a look at the comments to the blog post. > > cm > > > http://o3.indiatimes.com/singhdekhyaal/archive/2005/07/19/183144.aspx?Pending=true > > Same event, but two perspectives > Just as the same coin looks completely different depending upon the side > you look at it from, seems the present visit of Dr Manmohan Singh to the > United States. Whereas on one hand, the Indian press is going gaga on how > "seldom one sees foreign flags fluttering in the stiff Washington breeze" > and on the "US red carpet for Manmohan," as if it were tucked away in the > vaults for years only to be rolled out for this once-in-a-millenium state > visit (pardon the exaggeration, though which I have only borrowed from the > press), people here in the US don't give a penny about what the Indian chief > has to say. Finding this historical visit gleaming across the top headlines > of all major Indian papers online, I tried to look for similar shades in the > US newspapers. Unfortunately, failing to find any headline even vaguely > relevant to this event, I had to employ the search feature to excavate two > short stories about the meeting today in the New York Times and the > Washington Post. Disappointed, I turned to Google, and typed in the keywords > I was confident would bring me substantial non-Indian sponsored coverage of > Dr. Singh's visit - "white house, manmohan, bush, india ..." And Lo and > Behold! I see the white house website! My falling spirits rejuvinated, I > clicked on the link (www.whitehouse.gov), and immediately my pupils dilated > - TWO stories covering this visit, and one picture! TWO STORIES - can you > beat that! Never mind that the top headline on the site had little to do > with this issue ("Press Briefing by Scott McClellan"). With adrenalin > gushing through my vessels like the Amazon in flood, I clicked on the link > that said - "Play Video." My back riveted to my chair, I devoured each and > every word the two heads of states had to say - Bush on how fruitful the > discussions were, and Singh rambling on about why India deserves a permanent > seat in the UNSC. And right when I had almost convinced myself that I was > wrong in believing that this trip meant nothing to the Americans, came the > jolt which threw me back towards reality - the Question and Answer round. 4 > questions were asked, 2 by American reporters and 2 by the Indian reporters. > And whereas the latter, like well behaved professionals, asked two relevant > questions to the two leaders respectively, their US counterparts did quite > the contrary. Both their questions directed to George Bush were on national > issues as closely related to the India-US relations as a football match in > the US and the festival of Holi in India (apologies for the absurd analogy, > but I was at a loss to find two things quite as unrelated). Imagine Bill > Clinton and Vajpayee addressing a conference in Delhi, and a reporter asking > the latter about what he feels should be done to improve the Indian cricket > team! With 3 questions directed at his counterpart, 2 out of which were > about issues he possibly hadn't even heard of, Manmohan Singh would've > breathed a sigh of relief when an Indian reporter stood up to give this poor > man some respect - "Phew! I'm glad I had planted my man amongst these > disrespectful Americans!" Manmohan who??? > _______________________________________________ > Assam mailing list > Assam@pikespeak.uccs.edu > http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/listinfo/assam > > Mailing list FAQ: > http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/assam/assam-faq.html > To unsubscribe or change options: > http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/options/assam > > > _______________________________________________ Assam mailing list Assam@pikespeak.uccs.edu http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/listinfo/assam Mailing list FAQ: http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/assam/assam-faq.html To unsubscribe or change options: http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/options/assam
