Fatuous questions

IN Media Watch Briefs | 11/01/2008

The President of India¿s salary has been doubled. Bhupendra Choubey on CNN-IBN wants to know whether she deserves to get Rs one lakh a month. Considering that he and some of his other fellow anchors across channels get at least a few times that figure a month, we find that question fatuous and irritating in the extreme. To cap it there was a silly poll: Do politicians deserve to get the same salaries as the corporate sector?