Did hysterical TV anchors force PM's hand on Pak?

January 24, 2013 15:38

It was the hysterical campaign by the electronic media that led the Prime Minister to change course on the India-Pakistan dialogue after the LoC hostilities, writes lawyer, author and commentator AG Noorani in The Hindu.

'It was not to the BJP that the Prime Minister surrendered. He did so to the clamour whipped up by the electronic media. The BJP wrode piggy-back on that clamour. The resume of events from January 6 to 18 should be read in the light of the venom poured by television news anchors night after night. This raises in an acute form the issue of media influence on diplomacy,' he writes.

Read his engaging article here.

And while on the subject of the prime minister, here's another piece by someone who knows him well. Dr Sanjaya Baru decodes Dr Singh's red lines. Read him here.

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