Wednesday, March 16, 2005

I love Lou Dobbs

If you been watching news on American channels like CNN you would agree that they are just obsessed with people. I was thinking about what they have shown in past 6 months. It was election time and the whole day there was just a news of George Bush and Senator Kerry. After that there was Scot Peterson who killed his wife, Then there was this guy who also killed his wife and lied about his life that he was going to Med School, after that there was Tsunami Crisis in Asia, then BTK killer,Release of Martha Stewart, after that there was a shootout in Atlanta Court house, Michael Jackson's trial and his appearence in court house wearing Jamies and today back again to Scot Peterson finally going for lethal injection . Its amusing that the amount of time thier coverge spends on talking about people. I like Larry king however his talent is being wasted in interviewing people who have already been talked about the whole day. Is it anything to do with scarcity of news in America or their marketing head is dumb to think that people only see news channel to know what is going on with others life. They can make anybody a celebrity They spend too much time on news which has little significance to the life of the people considering their reach and potential. They have some great programs like Next which should get more room, also they have some good documentries. Talking about documentries BBC rules and I miss that.

CNN has some great anchors like Anderson Cooper, Paula Zhan to some real characters like "Lou Dobbs". I love his show to me he is the funniest newscaster around because he makes you believe that he has never even taken a high school class in economics. The three main axis of his program called "Lou Dobbs tonight" are "Red star rising" which talks about growing might of China, "Illegal aliens" which focusses on Mexican workers and threat to USA and a "daily internet poll" besides some equally enthusiastic guest like him. I wish he could send me his book he has written. The poll always has a rating of above 95 percent approval because of you know if you have ever taken a stat course of the kind of bias it generates. You cannot stop China from growing. It has a leadership which has clear goal in its mind where to steer China in the coming years. The funny thing about people like LouDobbs is they still live in the medival era philosophy that other countries cannot grow and there has to be a supreme power to rule the world. Internet has dramatically changed the work equation worldwide and the salaries in developed countries are taking a plunge because of cheaper availability of workers in other countries. Few years down the line these countries will have competitors in the form of other developed countries and they will have to think like what USA needs to do today.

There are equally hilarious reports I read in Newspaper like Timesofindia which are always making dismal comments about the progress of USA. They should remember that the size of country does matter in the long run and if you can educate your workforce your economy will be self sustainning and both of these things are in favour of US. It continues to get the best people because of its size and does a good job in educating its people. The second generation Indian students are lot more successful in US which should convince anyone about the first rate education system who continually to harp on the indian system of education . India like many other countries is now heavily depended on US universities to get quality graduates to feed its economy and US also needs these people to push its economy. US has clear advantage in terms of the best education system in the world and in knowledge economy is its ticket to futher economic prosperity and ofcourse with a fertile land like its it will continue to be a major agri business force in the world. US is a great country and no doubt anyone will fell in love with this country. Wonderful warm people who think for others and considerate and thanks to Lou Dobbs it makes it wonderful.

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