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few international news

In the last couple of years a lot of news channels are (should I use is ;-)) propping up. I counted number of news channels on TV and I found more than 20 news channels ( If you don't believe go and count them!). But still I prefer to watch BBC. I like BBC for it has good formal presentation style and excellent documentaries. But that's the subject of other blog. Here are some news, which I thought you would like to know, in case you haven't heard of them.

First, news about right hand of Dubya, Mr. Dick Cheney. As everybody knows, that this bunch of Republicans are from cowboy region and often do things like them. So when Cheney went for a vacation, he went for quail hunting trip ( can you imagine this in India? ). Then on top of that he 'accidently' shot one person. Check out the news with video. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4707354.stm Today that poor fellow (of course, the victim) has had suffered from heart condition. Cheney is being ridiculed all over the US media. He has finally found 'Weapon of Mass Destruction'.

Moving to Europe from US, Germany has confirmed that two swans found dead in the north of the country had the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus. Hey come on, in India thousands of people and perhaps many more birds ( do we care for them?). This bird flu stuff has been going on in theWestern media for months now. Five birds killed in Turkey and ten birds killed in Taiwan. European Union has held conferences to discuss the issue. Are they getting paranoid? Or just taking precausions. I don't know. We had the same situatiom couple of years back, when many birds were killed in China. But then all of a sudden it calmed down. Was it overhyped by paranoia-frenzy media? I checked the scintific information about this disease ( on wiki and bbc). all about bird flu It says, is the virus mutates to some human transmittable form it can cause havoc ( for those who know Bhupendra, am I sounding Bhupi-ish). The same happened in 1918 killing 40 million around the world. So perhaps the precausion is justified. But here in India, number of people must be dying because of other diseases. So from an Indian perspective, flu does not sound that much menacing.

Indian media rarely shows international events and news. I think with the world coming closer there is need to give Indian perspective to all international news. Our media better realise that.

posted by ninad @ 8:25 pm