Pathetic, pathetic

People do not always get the government they deserve, but they sure as hell get the newspaper they deserve. In the Gulf, general reportage is so pathetic, I am relieved to be not involved. In India, language press is powerful, robust, and often, rightly focused. Sure it has agendas. A good newspaper must. It must take a side. The English press in India, however, only looks decent because English news TV there is crap. One obsession they persist with is what a celebrity eats should s/he land in jail. Readers want it, they say. That’s a pathetic reader then.