Seriously, does rediff even remotely value it's readers' opinions? Time and again, the readers have expressed displeasure about the strong US flavour in it's news. And yet today, 2.5 days after the Virginia Tech shootings, we still have 4 out of the 8 articles under the news tab covering it.
This is not the international section. The url is http://in.rediff.com/ Don't we have any Indian news worth reporting? To be pragmatic, I concede that whether we like it or not, USA is the most dominant country in the world. However, that would carry it's weight on issues of Geo-politics, security, trade, etc. Why is a domestic incident given this much coverage in India?
But, alas we as a nation never got out of fascination for all things foreign. That's why we hailed Kalapana Chawla as an Indian achievement. [Never minding the fact that she has been an US citizen for 13 years when she made her journey into outer space.]
That's why the Tamil Nadu government sponsors flight tickets to the family of Prof. G V Loganathan's. No offence to him (May he rest in peace!) but the guy is, again, an US citizen and wanted his body to be buried in that country. Would the TN government expedite visa's and sponsor tickets for the family of any (God forbid!) Indian who may lose his life in Iraq/Sudan/Russia?
All of these points have been made multiple times in the comments, I would love to hear rediff's reply to these. Why the fascination for all things US?
Note: While there's cause for these questions, I do appreciate the fact that rediff does allow reader participation through these discussion boards.
