Comments on: Day 1193: Mumbai’s Aftermath http://vatul.net/blog/index.php/2083/ From Kuwait To Katrina And Beyond Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:03:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Maitri http://vatul.net/blog/index.php/2083/comment-page-1/#comment-308996 Maitri Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:33:49 +0000 http://vatul.net/blog/?p=2083#comment-308996 <i>i wonder whether they are manufacturing consent?</i> Of course, they are. This is how it happened in America after 9/11 - quiet political opposition and unquestioning fourth estate. And so it begins. i wonder whether they are manufacturing consent?

Of course, they are. This is how it happened in America after 9/11 – quiet political opposition and unquestioning fourth estate. And so it begins.

]]> By: harini calamur http://vatul.net/blog/index.php/2083/comment-page-1/#comment-308893 harini calamur Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:33:29 +0000 http://vatul.net/blog/?p=2083#comment-308893 hi thx for the link back do you know on news channels people are proposing the equivalent of the 'homeland security act' and no journalist is asking questions... i wonder whether they are manufacturing consent ? hi
thx for the link back
do you know on news channels people are proposing the equivalent of the ‘homeland security act’ and no journalist is asking questions…
i wonder whether they are manufacturing consent ?

]]> By: Holly http://vatul.net/blog/index.php/2083/comment-page-1/#comment-308875 Holly Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:34:34 +0000 http://vatul.net/blog/?p=2083#comment-308875 Thanks for posting this. I've been following the stories via Global Voices and read Chopra's interestingly balanced commentary. Some of my own friends in India feel (as they have in the past) that Pakistan is subsidizing these actions ("it's the fly that keeps buzzing around our heads... we just have to swat it"). The same stuff they said 6 years ago when I left them behind -- forced to evacuate due to threat of war. They are far to the north and I wonder if the CNN-style of sensationalized reporting impacts the way they feel India should react. It all worries me to no end -- particularly as U.S. politics and diplomacy seem so out of touch with that part of the world. Thanks for posting this. I’ve been following the stories via Global Voices and read Chopra’s interestingly balanced commentary. Some of my own friends in India feel (as they have in the past) that Pakistan is subsidizing these actions (“it’s the fly that keeps buzzing around our heads… we just have to swat it”). The same stuff they said 6 years ago when I left them behind — forced to evacuate due to threat of war. They are far to the north and I wonder if the CNN-style of sensationalized reporting impacts the way they feel India should react. It all worries me to no end — particularly as U.S. politics and diplomacy seem so out of touch with that part of the world.

]]> By: liprap http://vatul.net/blog/index.php/2083/comment-page-1/#comment-308869 liprap Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:41:00 +0000 http://vatul.net/blog/?p=2083#comment-308869 Yes, I, too have been guilty of focusing on one small part of this huge tragedy...but I never forget that many more people other than those at Nariman House were hurt or killed in all of this...and I wish the news media would get their heads screwed back on (if they ever had 'em in the first place) and realize how many holes the coverage of this has in it. Yes, I, too have been guilty of focusing on one small part of this huge tragedy…but I never forget that many more people other than those at Nariman House were hurt or killed in all of this…and I wish the news media would get their heads screwed back on (if they ever had ‘em in the first place) and realize how many holes the coverage of this has in it.

]]>