Neighborly Indian Journalists Unmasks the plot behind Dalai Lama

June 18, 2008 | Vetting explained

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NEW DELHI, June 17 (Xinhua) -- Reports in western media on the March 14 riots in China's Tibet autonomous region were "false" and "manipulated," and the Dalai Lama is a "consummate politician" and "separatist political figure," says N. Ram, editor-in-chief of Indian daily The Hindu, in a recently published article.

A notable feature of recent Western media coverage of Tibet is "the way journalism feeds off the disinformation campaign" unleashed by the Dalai clique and the supporters of "Tibet independence," Ram says in the article.

Under the guise of responsible news reporting, those media published "the most exaggerated and fanciful accounts of events by pleading lack of onsite access," Ram say, terming it "news-speak for 'anything goes' for journalists on the other side of the ideological-political fence."

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