Cosmo_R wrote:
One can be cynical but the NYT and Wapo did do the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. Today, NYT or Wapo may be bullied by the DOS or DOD into doing/not doing on the basis of 'access' and 'exclusives' BUT individual reporters are held to very stringent standards. Just Google reporters fired for ethical lapses and you'll see what I mean.
OK , whether or not you believe that, and you certainly have that right to not believe, the larger and more important point is that Indian journalists and publishers don't have any qualms or requirements about advocacy disguised as content.
PS. Whether or not the US press submits to GOTUS, they don't get bought by companies and certainly not by foreigners under aman ki asha stuff.
JMT
When it comes to foreign reporting, there is no doubt that these NYT 'reporters' follow a state dept/CIA script. Just look at their reporting on India going back through the ages. I follow India because I am from there, and think I understand something about it. I am not from Nigeria, so may read whatever the NYT says as the 'ethical', 'unadulterated' truth, but then I remember what what they report on India, and remember to take it with a large dose of salt.
The domestic agenda might be different. But then there are also the Tehelka guys in India who busted politicians. They had an agenda? But same could be said of Democrat/Republican biases for NYT reporters.
The 'aman ki asha' stuff is not necessarily a foreign thing. The GOI is the one that is pushing it the most, and we know well it is the ISI and deep state in pukistan that is most suspicious of it. So to claim that Indian journos are doing the ISI's bidding in pushing monkey tamasha does not compute.
Finally, I will say the unsayable a bit: many things lead me to think that India's covert ability to wreak havoc in pukistan through 'non-state actors' is not zero as we are prone to believe. What if GOI is playing good cop to RAW's bad cop, both being faces of the same Indian supreme national interest? What if India did have a hand in, say, attacking the Sri Lankan cricket team, and virtually destroying pakistani cricket in the process? Then what if India is the one that can save them again (a strategy being pursued by GOI again)? Too many unknowns to make a simplistic call.
has inflamed passions in the Army. "It has become a matter of izzat (honour)," a senior officer said, indicating that the force would hit back at Pakistan at a place and time of its choosing. The honour of the platoon (paltan in Army lingo) and their regiment can become the driver in conflict situations, often trumping other considerations.
