Whoa, boys

IN Media Watch Briefs | 08/06/2010

On Pratibha Patil’s recent China visit members of her media delegation were rude to their Chinese handlers, and generally made a nuisance of themselves. They forced a young Chinese boy to act as their tourist guide though he was meant to be an interpreter, and made ceaseless fun of him, berating him in Hindi when he did not do as ordered. They asked the driver to make unscheduled stops and also mimicked the local language. Two TV journalists even got into a brawl on the last day in the lobby of the hotel they were staying in, with a whisky glass broken. Wonder if any of this damaged the image of the visiting Head of State.

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