When Indian Media Coat Tails Foreign Media. Did Freedom Happen?

 

Posted by Barry Pittard on February 13, 2009

At http://barrypittard.wordpress.com Barry Pittard has just blogged the article:

 
When Indian Media Coat Tails Foreign Media. Did Freedom Happen?
 
 
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"A further breakthrough of sorts occurred when the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) took seriously our work in regard to the Duke of Edinburgh Awards-Sathya Sai Baba connection.  See:

A Duke Stops An Emperor. Edinburgh Routs Sai Baba "

"The situation has long been fraught with irony. We have been able to get so many major quality international media interested in our accounts, while India maintained a steep wall of censorship, so that non-resident Indians (NRI’s) around the world were able to access other points of view about Sathya Sai Baba, and their kindred in India were not".

"It scarcely reflects well on an Indian media that only when, for example, a major newspaper like The Guardian ran Paul Lewis’s story The Indian living god, the paedophilia claims and the Duke of Edinburgh awards that there was a response. One had thought a modicum of self-respect had been gained as a result of India’s struggle for freedom"