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Saturday, December 18, 2010

Can politics control the press?..Is this China or the US?

Last week in CNN GPS with Fareed Zakaria he asked the question:

I quote from CNN transcripts...

"ZAKARIA: Our question this week from the "GPS Challenge" is "What did Russia's Vladimir Putin and China's Wen Jiabao meet in St. Petersburg to discuss this week?" Is it A) Nuclear proliferation; B) American hegemony; C) Tiger conservation; D) Currency cooperation? Stay tuned and we'll tell you the correct answer.

The correct answer to our "GPS Challenge" question was, C) Tiger conservation. Putin and Wen met on how to save the world's tiger population, down from 100,000 a century ago to 3,200 today.

"

This is really striking since the major news that week on all non-US news papers were about China and Russia dumping US dollar for bilateral trade.

1)

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/85216/20101124/china-russia-dollar-vladimir-putin-wen-jiabao-ruble-yuan-bilateral-trade.htm

2)

http://www.hindu.com/2009/06/18/stories/2009061855491300.htm

3)

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pKE4pKOQns]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pKE4pKOQns

I can only wonder why Zakaria purposely asked the question, but gave the wrong answer...Is it due to pressure from above??? I hope controlling the press is not the beginning of worser things to follow.
Posted by krishnakumar at 10:52 AM
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