[icernet] Not watching DD?

[Arul Selvan]

  BBC World tells us the number of people watching them over the Iraq 
war, especially during the three-day period March 20 to 22, climbed up 
to some 10 million people. That, they say, is more than double their 
usual number or about a 108 per cent increase in viewing. What the 
figures really point to though is that our Indian channels found 
themselves a little caught out - they just didn't have their people in 
the right place at the right time. Which should make for perfect sense. 
If there's a war going on, people, anywhere in the world, are going to 
want to know about it. Not what's happening in the country next door. Or 
the various "Indian spin offs" that we are dished out from time to time. 
In which case, saying "we could become a world class news channel - with 
an Indian perspective" comes laden with its own contradictions. Sure we 
have a home audience we have to play to, a perspective, a bias even, but 
the Iraq war for one certainly didn't need any "Indianisation". That can 
be left to the history writers.

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