IE: New Orleans voters are dumbsh**ts
October 30, 2008
Source: Indian Express
Here's a case of a reporter approaching a story with a fixed angle already in mind, walking around and talking to a few dumb-asses, and then writing that story. I could do the same story in Seattle -- find some prickly old farts who back McCain because he was tortured, find an anime-eyed barista who thinks Obama is the Messiah. Of course, in the reporter's defense, this is what US papers do all the time when reporting on foreign lands. I guess that's the case in India too.
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Hmmm, you thought this, too, eh? The very first paragraph turned me off to the rest of the article. Why doesn't the author just call us all yokels in a backwater and get it over with?
You don't have to reach as far as India. The author, while of Indian heritage, is Columbia-educated and probably lives as far away as Manhattan (as long as we're indulging in stereotypes).
Posted by: Maitri | October 30, 2008 09:04 PM