The accepted convention is to report a sports story from the home team's perspective. For instance: Sania won 6-3, 6-4 against Justine Henin etc.CNN-IBN reported the thrilling ICC Twenty20 win by India over Pakistan from the Pakistani perspective. When the story first appeared on the website, it carried this pic, that of jubilant Pakistani players at an Indian wicket loss. At least they changed the pic within a few hours (we will post the screenshot when the story first broke later).
The headline, "Pak jinx continues against India, lose match", is something you would expect when India loses a match. Contrast this with:
TOI: India beats Pakistan 3-0, enter super 8s
HT: India pull off a stunner, beat Pakistan through a bowl-out
Sify: India beats Pakistan in twenty20 bowl-out
These people mentally live in Pakistan.
3 comments:
I can help rajdeep sardesai, sagarika and others who run CNN-IBN to physically live as well in pakistan by getting them a one way ticket to karachi.
Pakistanis will be so happy to have a TV channel that is somuch anti-india that even a pakistani government controlled media would not be.
Yes, it seems they are very much ruing Pakistan's loss. It shows there is a big majority of Pakistan sympathizers in the country. There is nothing wrong in sympathizing with a foreign country per say, but it shouldn't be done at the cost of your own country.
Maybe they just hired Bigfool Bidwai as their editorial consultant on subcontinental aka "South Asian" affairs.
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