I’m not a fan of the modi govt in anyway.
But you can’t blame the Indian Govt for the madness of the Hasina Regime. The Indian Govt didn’t ask her to press through with her idiotic quota system. Neither did they demand that she took a heavy hand in dealing with protestors.
Religious minorities in Bangladesh were insecure and vulnerable long before the current happenings. As you’ve mentioned before , the law enforcement agencies weren’t there to prevent those.
More than 600. So far the figures being reported were around 400. There’s this ominous possibility that we will never know the actual figure.
So relived that it’s finally coming out in the open 
Mike lynch the founder of Darktrace a British Cybersecurity company is missing after his yacht sank off the coast of Sicily yesterday.
He had recently won a court case after being extradited to the US where he had been accused of fraud after selling his previous company to Hewlett Packard i think.
Coincidence?
Rich people missing at sea: leads the news.
Poor people missing at sea: barely a footnote.
That encapsulates how the neoliberal agenda has come to dominate.
Oh come off it. If a dingy overturns the tabloids are cheering them on. “Gotcha! It woz the S*n wot did it.”
I hate this world.
Imagine thinking that British media reporting has ever been anything other than disproportionate to actual real life importance
Imagine being ignorant enough not to have noticed how much the media agenda has changed over the last 45-odd years.
I don’t remember a time where the media had any issues printing lies, varying versions of the truth, or exaggeration of actual events.
Says a lot about the media you consume.
I think you both have a point. Mainstream media has become worse (much, much, much more tabloid and less “proper” and “serious”), but the yellow press was always there (certainly in England) and the mainstream media always reported with cultural lenses on, prior to globalisation too (but that is and was natural in way).
I realise you may not be each other’s biggest fans, but I don’t think any of you are categorically incorrect. But there are nuances to both arguments.
And now I gently step back.
I think what I have noticed is that once “respectable” publications have turned into little more than sensationalist propaganda rags. The Telegraph is a case in point. It has always been a Conservative publication, but at one time it did publish factual reportage and the opinion pieces were labelled as such.
Now the Telegraph prints sensationalist nonsense passing as “news” and opinion that would not look out of place in Der Stürmer. I know Peter Oborne left largely because of commercial interests overriding editorial decisions but he must have seen the writing on the wall.
I dont consume any of it, sometimes browse which is more than enough.
Almost all these formerly respectable publications have gone from being independent to becoming the property of a small group of billionaires. As a result, they have devolved into neoliberal propaganda papers, hardly better than the former Pravda in the USSR (although with a different content of course).
It’s the same freaking shite everywhere. @cynicaloldgit is totally right, even though @Magnus is right too: the tabloids exist since a long time, but there was a time when they didn’t utterly dominate the newspaper landscape as they do now.
He IS my biggest fan.
You should see the smoochy PM’s he sends me 
That’s on top of the $93 billion smuggled out of the country.
Just today, a suitcase full of foreign currency worth $77m was recovered from an Army General.
I just saw this story regarding the presenter Lauren Laverne being diagnosed with cancer:
It sounds like they picked this up early through a routine screening programme. She makes the valid point that you shouldn’t put these tests off.
Anyway, I hope she recovers soon. I’ve always rather liked her on Desert Island Discs.