[icernet] US bias hampered Indian war correspondents

[Arul Selvan]

The 21-day-old Iraq war that headed towards its final denouement saw 
over a dozen Indian mediapersons at the battlefront, but lack of access 
and American media management made their experience frustrating. Though 
only one Indian journalist, Satish Jacob, representing state-owned 
Doordarshan TV, was in Baghdad braving bombs and bullets, about a dozen 
others reported the war from neighbouring Kuwait, Jordan and the United 
Arab Emirates. Most of the correspondents were from proliferating 
television channels, who are competing fiercely for viewer ratings, with 
the print media largely relying for the war coverage on American 
syndicates and Western news agencies.


Source:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_231390,0008.htm