ISRO agrees: English media kisses US butt

I am not a big fan of the Indian English press, and I am not sure if i have a post on that topic here, but I am pretty certain I made a long post on it somewhere. The Indian English press has no identity, other than to try to look like they are from the west. I think i did make a post on that topic here, when I said that The Hindustan Times and The Times of India are but a shadow of what they used to be. Dumb, sensationalist tabloids, thats what they are reduced to.

I have heard of a lot of yuppie people who love their daily dose of Times of India, but for someone looking for real news and real opinion, Times of India doesn't cut the ice anymore. The same with The Hindustan Times. You want softcore Indian porn? Then you must visit the illustrious websites of these exalted publications, because you will get to see plenty of Indian girls in bikinis, in addition to half-naked women from all over the world. Come to think of it, thats why their websites are popular, because admit it, with all the social chains on us, we Indians love our online porn. Of course you will only get to the good stuff after you have combated the dozens of pop-ups that uh...pop up as soon as you log on to their site.

These are two publications that want to turn themselves into tabloids to cater to the yuppie crowd. For example, if you log onto The Economic Times, a sister publication of the ToI, you will have plenty of stories on how to get to the US. You will be uptodate as to how the visa scene is, and how you can get one, and you will have first hand knowledge of some insignificant act that some Indian did somewhere in the United States. Yes, when it comes to the US fixation, the Bennett & Coleman publication called the Times of India definitely puts the 't' in the buttkiss. In addition, the Times of India also does not agree with how big, bad India is taking away the jobs of the innocent American citizens who are being laid off in the thousands because we Indians are willing to work for cheap. Bad, bad Indians.

Then there are the publications that owe their allegience to other foreign forces, like the Hindu and its communist brotherhood. I dont know if people have noticed it, but I think the Hindu is very communist. Good, so the Government of India's 'Look East' policy is at least working on somebody. A lot of people love the newspaper and it still does a good job in bringing quality news without the kitch, but in my opinion, they are very Chinese friendly, which I think is not a good thing.

Theres bias in all media, and maybe our newspapers don't stand a chance when it comes to media bias from the likes of BBC and Fox News, CNN etc, but they are still biased enough to leave a bad taste in ones mouth, and potentially hurt the society.

Over the moon on US

The lunar mission, Chandrayaan-1, is entirely an ISRO show. For 3-4 years it has sweated to conceive, script, plan, get the Rs 350-crore project off the ground. So, imagine the Organisation's chagrin when it had to share the credit for its baby with its US counterpart, NASA.

"Chandrayaan is a fully Indian mission. So how come the media are making so much of an MoU and calling it a joint venture and hailing the US and NASA for it?" asked one usually reticent ISRO official. "You in the media have gone truly overboard. All that the US has done is put two instruments on our spacecraft. It's like putting extra passengers."

And where were the same media when the European Space Agency quietly signed a similar MoU for three instruments a few months back, another official asked. "You surely have a US fixation."