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Flagrant Foul on FT’s Joe Leahy and on Editors of Financial Times for Journalistic Misconduct and Religious Prejudice

Posted on May 2, 2009 by MV

On April 27, 2009, Joe Leahy, Mumbai Bureau Chief of the Financial Times (of London), wrote an article titled “Mumbai campaign highlights extremist views”. The abstract of this article (on the main India page of the Newspaper), begins “Regionalism has evolved into a toxic mix of ethnic and religious hatred…”. (see www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9ead04f4-334d-11de-8f1b-00144feabdc0.html ). Frankly, when…

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Current Affairs/Television Media

Wall Street Journal vs. Financial Times

Posted on May 2, 2009 by MV

We understand from Hugh Carnegy, Executive Editor of the Financial Times, that FT’s standards of journalistic practice are based on the UK Press Complaints Commission’s code of conduct. This affirmation reminded us of our thesis that each newspaper has a unique culture that gets reflected in the writings of its reporters and that journalistic culture is…

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Current Affairs/Television Media

Where Are India’s Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Joe Scarborough?

Posted on May 2, 2009 by MV

In another article* on our blog, we called a flagrant foul on Joe Leahy of the Financial Times (FT) and on FT’s editors for Mr. Leahy’s article “Mumbai campaign highlights extremist views”. As we were writing that article, we wondered what a Bill O’Reilly would have done, had Joe Leahy made similar statements about New…

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Current Affairs

Will The Obama Administration Occupy Pashtunistan Or All Of Pakistan?

Posted on April 25, 2009 by MV

This week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the US Congress that the situation in Pakistan “poses a mortal threat to the security and safety of our country and the world.”. These are strong words. A “mortal threat” to the security of America, we would think, would require a serious military and strategic response. That is why we…

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Money/Television Media

US Treasuries – Will 2009 Be Like 2006-2008 Or Like 2003 & 2005?

Posted on April 25, 2009 by MV

Editor’s Note: This article is an exercise in journalism and journalism only. It is intended to describe history and to raise questions about the future. It is definitely NOT an investment article and should not be considered as such. No one should base any investment decisions or consider any investment decisions based on any fact,…

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Current Affairs/History

Why India Gets Attacked By Terrorists And America Does Not?

Posted on April 25, 2009 by MV

We can think of several reasons why India gets attacked by terrorists routinely and regularly while America has not been attacked since September 11, 2001. But today, we focus on one reason that our readers might not be aware of. Frankly, we did not know either and were stunned into utter disbelief when we found out…

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Television Media

CNBC’s Bartiromo And Burnett – The Rivalry Continues And Evolves Into A Proxy War?

Posted on April 18, 2009 by MV

We often start writing about a topic when we see an unusual or interesting angle develop. Last summer, the New York Times wrote a story about the rivalry between Erin Burnett, the new star of CNBC and Maria Bartiromo, CNBC’s standard bearer. As a Bollywood Rasik, we are no strangers to diva-rivalries. So, we wrote an article* about looking at CNBC from…

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Money/Television Media

CNBC Fast Money’s New Half Time Report – Thanks Jon Najarian

Posted on April 18, 2009 by MV

We have been honestly and fairly critical of CNBC’s Fast Money Show and some of the traders on this show. Our readers seem to approve. They have made our article, “CNBC’s Fast Money – Practice What Your Anchor Dylan Ratigan” the second most popular article on our blog (see https://cinemarasik.com/2009/02/21/cnbcs-fast-money–practice-what-your-anchor-dylan-ratigan-preaches.aspx ). We have been diligent in catching mistakes made…

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Current Affairs/History

China-India Border Tensions Move From The Military To The Economic Arena

Posted on April 18, 2009 by MV

We have written extensively and often about the China-India military tensions and the border disputes, the most recent article being “China-India Tensions – Views Of The Pentagon & The Indian Military” on April 4. 2009 (see https://cinemarasik.com/2009/04/04/chinaindia-tensions–views-of-the-pentagon–the-indian-military.aspx ). Last week, China escalated this dispute to the economic arena by effectively blocking a loan from…

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Current Affairs/History

When Will Pashtun Taliban Win Pakistani Panjab? What Does The Obama Administration Think?

Posted on April 18, 2009 by MV

Last August, we wrote, “Yet, the Pakistani establishment keep looking the wrong way. The bulk of the Pakistani Panjabi Army faces India, while behind their backs, the Pashtuns are increasing their control over Pakistan. If this goes on unchecked, we might see a struggle break out for control of Panjab between the Panjabis and the…

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