Why is it that western anchors take such liberties with Asian heads of state that they would never do so with western ones?
No matter what your political or social position is, the fact that he is a head of state, he should be given the same respect that , say, President Bush receives.
Wolf Blitzer was so disrespectful to Pres. Musharraf, and I could see how he spoke with Pres Bush , like day and night!
I have seen this before as well, the CBS guy, George Wallace, they did a retirement program on him and the clips that they showed with him interviewing head of state were downright rude!
There is a double standard , I feel, when people of
developing world" are interviewed and it is not right.
Has anyone else noticed this?
The Irani President would have none of this crap and they accused him of being condescending!
Wolf Blitzer was so disrespectful to Pres. Musharraf, and I could see how he spoke with Pres Bush , like day and night!
Blitzer is a two bit journalist fit to be a weatherman in a clown suit. You should see him when he is interviewing zionists. If they told him to go fetch him tea and cookies, he'd say "yes massah" and make a run like Ganga-deen.
Mr. Fraudia, I ve only seen Pres. Musharraf do that. You are right, they should be kicked in the behind!
LuxuryItem...I sense some hostility here....
I remember this interview of George Clooney by Scarborough (dont recall) where the press man got on Clooney's nerves and Clooney slammed him like a sumo! Goras dunne take the nasty tone, why should desis or cheenees?
I think part of the reason that you don't see people like Bush or Blair being spoken to by journalists in this way is because their advisors carefully hand-pick who they will be interviewed by. You will probably never see Bush in the "hot seat" or being interviewed by Charlie Rose. And it would be a cold day in hell before he appeared with Jon Stewart.
Also I think that Asians are not as confrontational. Goras are definitely more assertive when it comes to the sort of treatment we will accept.
in journalism, it might as well be called rubbing in, & shamelessly adding insult to injury.
you aptly described it – the only understanding is indeed the double standards which they want, they like it and they will stop short of nothing for utter public disregard of others.
what they really want is consistently demeaning, and disrespecting, something that is the ‘bench marks’ of western interviews and end less news analyses, what does it tell us??
they only know loose talk, arrogant opinionated, prejudiced & affront behavior of addressing even dignitaries and excellencies from guest countries; a mentality to allude to deliberate provocation, obnoxious, ignorant, jest making of ill informed allegations, mostly, leading to fabricated slander and labile. that is all they have as their standards, unfortunately. we cannot expect better of them. they do not know, what honesty, impartiality, non selfish work is.
but, this is what i have come to make peace with: we should not support it, which means, if we hear it, we denounce it, correct it, expose it & also i feel this: is not it a sad thing, what the means of these rude people's livelihoods is.
dushi
No matter what your political or social position is, the fact that he is a head of state, he should be given the same respect that , say, President Bush receives.
Wolf Blitzer was so disrespectful to Pres. Musharraf, and I could see how he spoke with Pres Bush , like day and night!
I have seen this before as well, the CBS guy, George Wallace, they did a retirement program on him and the clips that they showed with him interviewing head of state were downright rude!
There is a double standard , I feel, when people of
developing world" are interviewed and it is not right.
Has anyone else noticed this?
The Irani President would have none of this crap and they accused him of being condescending!
the way i dunno who interviewed the Irani president was even more so, I mean the prez is smiling, and being friendly, and the interviewer is disrepecting him and treating him like ****.
this happens to increase the viewership of the channel. whats the big deal? havent you seen Hamid Mir and other Pakistani tv anchors getting agressive against Advani and other Indian top politicians while they remain submissive to Musharraf, BB, Nawaz and Altaf ....
interviewees should be smart enough to keep anchors withing their limits and chair !
No matter what your political or social position is, the fact that he is a head of state, he should be given the same respect that , say, President Bush receives.
Wolf Blitzer was so disrespectful to Pres. Musharraf, and I could see how he spoke with Pres Bush , like day and night!
I have seen this before as well, the CBS guy, George Wallace, they did a retirement program on him and the clips that they showed with him interviewing head of state were downright rude!
There is a double standard , I feel, when people of
developing world" are interviewed and it is not right.
Has anyone else noticed this?
The Irani President would have none of this crap and they accused him of being condescending!
The fault is with our leaders who allow that kind of treatment to take place. they should tell'em right there to behave or tell'em to kiss their ass and this interview is over.