Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Sonia Gandhi gives up press club membership
The honorary membership was given very recently. It seems that the members of a discredited management team flaunted their meeting with the Congress president and used their photograph with her as campaign material — dragging into the paltry puddle of Press Club politics a leader used to giant cut-outs and huge election rallies. The Calcutta Telegraph says Sonia was angry about being dragged into a paltry puddle.
US Presidents make it a point to attend the White House Correspondents Association dinner, where they are expected to make jokes at their own expense --- a tradition both George W. Bush and Barack Obama followed.
IMO: Shows that Indians live at a different moral and spiritual level to Americans, something I have always thought. In a sense it compares to the way that the US press are often ridiculously obsequious to senior politicians but the British press tend to ask awkward if sometimes boring questions.
US Presidents make it a point to attend the White House Correspondents Association dinner, where they are expected to make jokes at their own expense --- a tradition both George W. Bush and Barack Obama followed.
IMO: Shows that Indians live at a different moral and spiritual level to Americans, something I have always thought. In a sense it compares to the way that the US press are often ridiculously obsequious to senior politicians but the British press tend to ask awkward if sometimes boring questions.
# posted by uv : 8:55 PM
Subscribe to Posts [Atom]
