India media battles China
Why does the India media blow hot and cold over China, every now and then? I look at this phenomenon in " Breaking news: TV battles China ", published in the Financial Express, on 25 Sept 2009. Apart from any geopolitical factors, there are two plausible explanations for the current focus on the China-India border, particularly on a few TV news channels in India. We are being daily fed with reports of Chinese incursions, China’s aggressive postures, China’s military buildup, China painting rocks red, and then the media is blowing hot and cold over whether the Indian military is capable or ill prepared to deal with any situation that may arise. Indian government has repeated that there is nothing unusual happening on the border. Indian military has said there has been nothing unusual on the border. But of course the media knows better. I know very little about the Chinese response to the war being waged in Indian drawing rooms. One report in Indian papers quoted Chinese offic...