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<div class="itg-mosimage"><amp-img src="https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.dev?url=https%3A%2F%2Fakm-img-a-in.tosshub.com%2Fsites%2Fmedia2%2Findiatoday%2Fimages%2Fstories%2F1976August%2Fmedia-1_041315103422.jpg" alt="" height="425" width="650" class="" layout="responsive"></amp-img><p>Western media has always projected the "rope trick" image of India. Despite being aware of the fact that the essence of the rope trick is hypnotism they gleefully clamber up the rope. When they fall on their bottoms they blame it on "underdeveloped technology".</p><p>Dominant western media has always looked at developing countries through the coloured glasses of an entirely different value system. In essence a majority of the developing countries were former colonies which today constitute one of the most potent forces in the world.</p><p>To the media and the power elites accustomed to impose their own "superior value system" on a "backward colonized countries" the growing politico-socio-economic independence has an anathema. In the first decade or two of independence the projection of colonial values was continued through the means of the western-oriented elites, which had been created by them during the period of subjugation. The indigenous western printing power elites started losing their stranglehold with independent development. The western media and the elite media within some of the developing countries increased their campaign of "distortion". In popular jargon this has come to be called the "writings of a colonial hangover".</p><p>The latest tirade by the western media has been on the proposed non-aligned news pool which has started off with 20 countries agreeing to bilateral and multilateral exchange of news and is expected to be formally launched after the non-aligned summit in Colombo concludes by the third week of this month. Dominant western media, specially that of America and Great Britain went after the concept of a non-aligned news pool on the grounds of its inability to be "objective" and attempted "control of the free flow of information".</p><p>Underlying the entire argument is that objectivity is selection of facts through a western value system passing off sensationalism for sense and "nattering" for news. The obvious definition of "control of information" was the lack of news which would titillate the western palate. Writing about a child dying of a snake bite in Trombay without mentioning that it has one of the most developed nuclear stations and giving the general impression that India is basically a country of snakes and technological development was merely incidental to the snake bite. Usually the non-aligned nations have kept a polite silence hoping that the "nattering nabobs of the western news world" would get over their ravings. They did not.</p><div class="itemcenter"><amp-iframe height="62" title="" width="320" sandbox="allow-forms allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation" allowfullscreen src="https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.dev?url=https%3A%2F%2Fakm-img-a-in.tosshub.com%2Fsites%2Findiatoday%2Fbanner%2Fpreferred-source-new.html%3Fv%3D1.014%5Cu0026native%3D1" class="mrBt15 preferred-source-banner"> </amp-iframe></div></p><p>When the tirade accelerated with the approach of the non-aligned summit, India decided to speak back. In a crowded press conference at the Press Club of India, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's special envoy Mohammad Yunus hit back at the critics.</p><p>The news-pool, Yunus said, would be created so that the developing nations not be subjected to the "control of information" exercised by the dominant western news agencies. The overemphasis on everything western and the dismissal of every positive development in the Third World which has been the sine qua non of all the western agencies would be corrected by the news-pool, Yunus asserted.</p><div class="itg-mosimage"><amp-img src="https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.dev?url=https%3A%2F%2Fakm-img-a-in.tosshub.com%2Fsites%2Fmedia2%2Findiatoday%2Fimages%2Fstories%2F1976August%2Fmedia-1__041315103423.jpg" alt="" height="425" width="650" class="" layout="responsive"></amp-img></div></p><p>As an example Yunus pointed to the "reams of news" on the American Presidential primaries which included everything from the number of teeth visible when a particular candidate smiled to the mating habits of his rival's dogs, against a one-line item released when Algeria held one of its most important referendums.</p><p>The main aim of the news-pool would be to close the "information gap" between non-aligned developing nations which has been furthered by the policy of benign neglect of news from developing countries by the western news agencies.</p><p>Dismissing the accusation that the news-pool would hamper the free flow of information because of governmental control, Yunus, pointed to the fact that most of the western news agencies themselves were dependent on the government either directly or indirectly.</p><p>Hitting back at the western media in their own language Yunus quoted instances of "western impartial and objective" news reporting from India. They were: (1) When Baronness Lee from the United Kingdom wrote an article on her visit to post-emergency India, it was refused by a leading newspaper on the grounds that it was very much in praise of India; (2) A western TV commentator and an expert on India reported that Indians were bitten by snakes so many times that they had become addicted and needed to have a snake bite every day. He also reported that standing on the balcony of the Taj Mahal he saw vultures fighting over the body of a child floating on the Ganga. The Jamuna flows by the Taj and not the Ganga, Yunus gently pointed out. (3) The Economist of July 31, 1975 quoted a high government official as saying that India would go to war with Pakistan in July or August 1975.</p><p>The Prime Minister's special envoy also took a dig at the elite western oriented press in India which in the pre-emergency period had looked westwards rather than inwards. When a correspondent asked whether this continuous antagonism between the press and the government would end, Yunus smiled and said, "You have had a gala time for 30 years. Let the government also have its say at least for a few months."</p><p>The strongest criticism of the attitude of the western media came from a British journalist whose letter was not even printed by the propagandists of "objectivity and impartiality". In his letter Richard Gott of The Guardian accused the media of "obvious class, race and political bias". The system as a whole, he said, breeds cultural imperialism, apart, of course, from individuals who work for the CIA, masquerading as journalists.</p><p>The assertion of national pride and insistence on recognition of their individual identities by the developing nations find one of its expressions in the news-pool. That, however, is only a part of the expression. Although the westernized power elite still remain in control with diminished power the times are changing and forces are in motion which will break the grips of the westernized media-bias in developing countries.</p><div id="tab-link-wrapper-plugin"><div class="authors__container"><div class="authors__by"><div class="authlable">Published By: </div><div class="authdetaisl">AtMigration </div></div><div class="published__on"><div class="authlable">Published On: </div><div class="authdetaisl">Apr 13, 2015</div></div></div><div class="sendros">--- ENDS ---</div></div></div>

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<div class="itg-mosimage"><div class="itgimage"><img  title=""  class="" alt="" src="https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.dev?url=https%3A%2F%2Fakm-img-a-in.tosshub.com%2Fsites%2Fmedia2%2Findiatoday%2Fimages%2Fstories%2F1976August%2Fmedia-1_041315103422.jpg" loading="lazy" /></div><p>Western media has always projected the "rope trick" image of India. Despite being aware of the fact that the essence of the rope trick is hypnotism they gleefully clamber up the rope. When they fall on their bottoms they blame it on "underdeveloped technology".</p><p>Dominant western media has always looked at developing countries through the coloured glasses of an entirely different value system. In essence a majority of the developing countries were former colonies which today constitute one of the most potent forces in the world.</p><p>To the media and the power elites accustomed to impose their own "superior value system" on a "backward colonized countries" the growing politico-socio-economic independence has an anathema. In the first decade or two of independence the projection of colonial values was continued through the means of the western-oriented elites, which had been created by them during the period of subjugation. The indigenous western printing power elites started losing their stranglehold with independent development. The western media and the elite media within some of the developing countries increased their campaign of "distortion". In popular jargon this has come to be called the "writings of a colonial hangover".</p><p>The latest tirade by the western media has been on the proposed non-aligned news pool which has started off with 20 countries agreeing to bilateral and multilateral exchange of news and is expected to be formally launched after the non-aligned summit in Colombo concludes by the third week of this month. Dominant western media, specially that of America and Great Britain went after the concept of a non-aligned news pool on the grounds of its inability to be "objective" and attempted "control of the free flow of information".</p><p>Underlying the entire argument is that objectivity is selection of facts through a western value system passing off sensationalism for sense and "nattering" for news. The obvious definition of "control of information" was the lack of news which would titillate the western palate. Writing about a child dying of a snake bite in Trombay without mentioning that it has one of the most developed nuclear stations and giving the general impression that India is basically a country of snakes and technological development was merely incidental to the snake bite. Usually the non-aligned nations have kept a polite silence hoping that the "nattering nabobs of the western news world" would get over their ravings. They did not.</p><div class="itemcenter"><iframe scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" width="100%" height="62" awidth="320" aheight="62" amplayout="fixed" src="https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.dev?url=https%3A%2F%2Fakm-img-a-in.tosshub.com%2Fsites%2Findiatoday%2Fbanner%2Fpreferred-source-new.html%3Fv%3D1.014" class="preferred-source-banner" loading="lazy"></iframe></div><style>.preferred-source-banner{  margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom:10px;}</style></p><p>When the tirade accelerated with the approach of the non-aligned summit, India decided to speak back. In a crowded press conference at the Press Club of India, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's special envoy Mohammad Yunus hit back at the critics.</p><p>The news-pool, Yunus said, would be created so that the developing nations not be subjected to the "control of information" exercised by the dominant western news agencies. The overemphasis on everything western and the dismissal of every positive development in the Third World which has been the sine qua non of all the western agencies would be corrected by the news-pool, Yunus asserted.</p><div class="itg-mosimage"><div class="itgimage"><img  title=""  class="" alt="" src="https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.dev?url=https%3A%2F%2Fakm-img-a-in.tosshub.com%2Fsites%2Fmedia2%2Findiatoday%2Fimages%2Fstories%2F1976August%2Fmedia-1__041315103423.jpg" loading="lazy" /></div></div></p><p>As an example Yunus pointed to the "reams of news" on the American Presidential primaries which included everything from the number of teeth visible when a particular candidate smiled to the mating habits of his rival's dogs, against a one-line item released when Algeria held one of its most important referendums.</p><p>The main aim of the news-pool would be to close the "information gap" between non-aligned developing nations which has been furthered by the policy of benign neglect of news from developing countries by the western news agencies.</p><p>Dismissing the accusation that the news-pool would hamper the free flow of information because of governmental control, Yunus, pointed to the fact that most of the western news agencies themselves were dependent on the government either directly or indirectly.</p><p>Hitting back at the western media in their own language Yunus quoted instances of "western impartial and objective" news reporting from India. They were: (1) When Baronness Lee from the United Kingdom wrote an article on her visit to post-emergency India, it was refused by a leading newspaper on the grounds that it was very much in praise of India; (2) A western TV commentator and an expert on India reported that Indians were bitten by snakes so many times that they had become addicted and needed to have a snake bite every day. He also reported that standing on the balcony of the Taj Mahal he saw vultures fighting over the body of a child floating on the Ganga. The Jamuna flows by the Taj and not the Ganga, Yunus gently pointed out. (3) The Economist of July 31, 1975 quoted a high government official as saying that India would go to war with Pakistan in July or August 1975.</p><p>The Prime Minister's special envoy also took a dig at the elite western oriented press in India which in the pre-emergency period had looked westwards rather than inwards. When a correspondent asked whether this continuous antagonism between the press and the government would end, Yunus smiled and said, "You have had a gala time for 30 years. Let the government also have its say at least for a few months."</p><p>The strongest criticism of the attitude of the western media came from a British journalist whose letter was not even printed by the propagandists of "objectivity and impartiality". In his letter Richard Gott of The Guardian accused the media of "obvious class, race and political bias". The system as a whole, he said, breeds cultural imperialism, apart, of course, from individuals who work for the CIA, masquerading as journalists.</p><p>The assertion of national pride and insistence on recognition of their individual identities by the developing nations find one of its expressions in the news-pool. That, however, is only a part of the expression. Although the westernized power elite still remain in control with diminished power the times are changing and forces are in motion which will break the grips of the westernized media-bias in developing countries.</p><div id="tab-link-wrapper-plugin"><div class="authors__container"><div class="authors__by"><div class="authlable">Published By: </div><div class="authdetaisl">AtMigration </div></div><div class="published__on"><div class="authlable">Published On: </div><div class="authdetaisl">Apr 13, 2015</div></div></div><div class="sendros">--- ENDS ---</div></div></div>

Dominant western media has always looked at developing countries through
 the coloured glasses of an entirely different value system. In essence a
 majority of the developing countries were former colonies which today 
constitute one of the most potent forces in the world.

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Dominant western media has always looked at developing countries through the coloured glasses of an entirely different value system. In essence a majority of the developing countries were former colonies which today constitute one of the most potent forces in the world.

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Donald Trump’s Davos speech marked a sharp America First turn, questioning alliances, pressuring Europe over Greenland, recasting Nato as transactional, and signalling a global shift toward power politics with implications for Europe, China, Russia and India.

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The US military transferred 150 Islamic State detainees from Syria to Iraq, citing prison security risks after Kurdish forces collapsed, and said up to 7,000 fighters could eventually be relocated.

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Dipti Tripathi, wife of BBMB chairman Manoj Tripathi, had her BJP joining postponed by the party’s Haryana unit after an intelligence alert warned of a possible threat to her life.



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United States President Donald Trump, who addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, said that he loves Europe, but it's not heading in the right direction.

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Gita Gopinath, Indian-American economist and Professor of Economics at Harvard University, shares her insights on Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's remarks on shifting global economic order during the World Economic Forum in Davos and dealing with tariffs. 

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In this Special Report, we focus on the retirement of veteran NASA astronaut Sunita Williams after an illustrious 27-year career. Speaking in New Delhi, Williams described her visit to India as a 'homecoming', reflecting on her deep personal ties to the country where her father was born. During an interactive session, she shared profound life lessons from her time aboard the International Space Station, noting, 'Every person I know is there. Every animal, every plant, everything we know is there, and we're all on this one planet.' Williams, who completed three missions and set multiple human spaceflight records, emphasized how viewing Earth from orbit changes one's perception of global differences. The retired astronaut also met with the family of late fellow astronaut Kalpana Chawla during her stay in the national capital. The programme highlights her historic contributions to space exploration and her reflections on humanity's shared home.

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