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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Two articles have catapulted into our top 10 list since our last monthly updates. We use the term “catapulted’ to describe the speed at which the readership of these 2 articles grew during the past 4 weeks. These new articles are: “CNBC’s Fast Money – Practice What Your Anchor Dylan Ratigan Preaches” – entered the…