Time to be nationalistic

IN Media Watch Briefs | 01/01/2002

Time to be nationalistic

When war, or at any rate hostility is imminent the media turns nationalistic. On the Indian side both reporters and columnists are dishing out the government rationale for every move. In Pakistan advice is being given. Dawn was advising Pakistan to opt for international monitors along the Line of Control so that they can "report impartially on the truth or otherwise of infiltration." And on PTV World participants in a discussion were urging their government to file a case against India in an international tribunal for the killings in Gujarat, post Godhra.

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