Comments by "nrusimha11" (@nrusimha11) on "Crook, TRP-hunter, idiot, clown: How Indian journalist fell from hero to zero for Bollywood" video.

Loved the recap of important Hindi movies! I would also add - many of the younger journalists appear either US-educated or influenced by left-wing American journalism. They are importing and litigating in Indian society, the cultural and political wars waged by American Press. This ought to be concerning to sensible people.
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@P Pierre Really good question and someone should do a careful sociological study for the stats. Anecdotally, both Shri Raj Kamal Jha (editor-in-chief, IE) and one of the younger Goenkas are US-educated. Even someone as senior as Shri Shekhar Gupta of The Print shows a strong US left-wing imprint in his views. He described a stint at The NY Times as a visiting fellow if I remember correctly). Some more tangentially, I have noted Americanism such as 'seventh innings stretch and the chips are down' :-) in Indian news paper writings in the late 90's. In short, there is evidence that at least in two important Indian publications at senior-most positions with a capacity to influence editorial slant, there are US-educated people in place. Note added in proof: I just checked that Shri N. Ram the (former) editor of The Hindu is US educated as well. That would make it three important Indian publications. There could be more but I did not check them all.
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@P Pierre I said 'appear' instead of 'are', to reflect the fact that it was an impression. Someone reading this needs to piece together the lineages of junior journalists as an academic project as I am sure it would be interesting. Coming to the editors, who do you think does the hiring decisions on the junior people at a news paper? These changes do not happen overnight and probably take decades to trickle down (hence the "or influenced by"). It is my impression that this started in the late 90s and things are coming to a head now. Coming to your 3rd point - leaving out your personal opinions on different universities - it does not appear that you necessarily contest that many Indian journalists may be getting educated in the US. That in itself is not a bad thing. My subjective observation was about the appearance of a left-wing slant. Even there, I sense tacit agreement when you seem to suggest that US journalism schools have an 'ideology leaning'. I don't believe that is true as universities are supposed to be places of liberal thought, and even if it is, hope that it is not 'left-wing'.
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@P Pierre We may be going in circles here so I'll end with one last comment. It'd be silly to equate America with left-wing so I don't, when it is engaged in a death duel between a left-wing and a right-wing. That simple and even dangerous dichotomy won't do for India which had a traditionally syncretic outlook.
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