Sir,
During the Vietnam war, the US government and the American mainstream media projected Vietnam as a rich country to their citizens. It was only after a group of three journalists went to the war ravaged country and brought back pictures from Vietnam and published in some responsible news outlets that the people of America realized that their govt and govt controlled/sponsored media was fooling them.
Vietnam was one of the poorest countries in Asia, but with great self-respect.
Likewise we cannot trust the Indian media which is used by the Indian central govt and corporate to publish stories like dams on the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra in China. Is this a concerted effort to draw away attention of the public from the NHPC dam projects in Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border and the hundreds of dams coming up in Arunachal Pradesh? If the reports of dams by China is given so much coverage, why is the news of breaking of two dams on river Elhwa in the Americas not given any coverage??
Yours,
Vox populi