sic "lightening" On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Ravi Bellur <rav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Don't forget the TV channels. All they want is a straw and they will >> sensationalize it. Reminds of a recent sighting on News 9, a Bangalore >> based local news channel. They were making a big hue and cry about a >> program that was going to be aired later that night that was based on >> the news that a woman was growing 'pot' in pots at home. The ad was >> sounding as if it was a gruesome mass murder. >> > > Hey, you need ratings to get Nivea and Garnier to sell their skin > lightening products. Apparently no one believes the Western World when we > say that Indians are good looking the way they are. And we'd like to be > darker. I've been sunburned twice here already. It's unpleasant. > > But to quote Perry Farrell from "Jane's Addiction," -- "The news is just > another show selling sex and violence...." -- "Ted, Just Admit It" from the > album "Nothing's Shocking" >
