Nothing serves like serving interests. Indian media is no exception as there seems to be no permanent friends and no permanent enemies. Only permanent interests.
Indian media has justified that time and again. Even in one of most widely covered incidents on communal violence- The Godhra incident. The coverage was so much focused on the violence of the Hindus that the Godhra now seems to be the synonymous to the Hindu slaughter the Muslims picture and not the incident which triggered all that- burning of 57 Hindus (a number which depreciated rapidly with the course of time) alive.
Here the excerpt from The Hindu to rationalize my putting the number at 57:
Fifty-seven persons, mostly women and children, were killed and 43 sustained burn injuries when a coach of the Faizabad-Ahmedabad Sabarmati Express carrying `Ram sevaks' was set afire by a group of people on the outskirts of ... , The Hindu (Feb 28, 2002)
And apologies! Later reports say that the incident was an accident! Whenever the truth is unappealing, so many pictures are painted around it that it is virtually impossible distinguish the genuine from the fake. Because the ap
