News Reporting techniques of today

News reporting techniques of today =========================== I chanced upon this very objective " news report" from Reuters today. I felt it was exceedingly fair. So fair, that it would have made Manuneedhi Chozan proud. (see this story of him in http://shortstories.co.in/manuneedhi-cholan/) The article is so objective, that it has dragged even Modi's personal religious faith into this Court judgement news. And has mentioned dime a dozen times the fact that Modi was CM of Gujarat when 2002 happened, how he practically managed to become PM even with hands " stained in blood" (notwithstanding a 2013 SC judgement that had completely absolved him of any complicity), and how he had dodged the US establishment, that watchdog of world peace and justice, into giving him a US visa etc etc... Very objective reporting, indeed. I then imagined how Reuters may well have reported the Orlando incident, with a president with allegedly Islamic connections, in charge, just along the lines of this "Modi" coverage. After all, unfounded rumours and conspiracy theories have been circulating in the media for years now, on this. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_religion_conspiracy_theories) So, I let my imagination run riot. What if this gory incident were to be given a coloured twist, and drag Obama needlessly into it? It may well look like this" " A Muslim gunman, today, mercilessly gunned down 50 innocent people in a gay bar in Orlando. The shootout has shaken the nation, and got over before it started. The Muslim gunman was shot down in an ambush, by the patriotic police. The gay people, whose interests lie only in enlarging the circling of friends ( pun not intended ;) ) , had quietly gathered on a weekend evening, to make further inroads into their objective ( again, pun not intended ;) ) when they were attacked by the lone Muslim gunman. Though not proven, it is widely believed that his hatred for gays may have been the cause of this gory shooting of innocent christian gays. There is a section of the American people who believe that President Barack Obama may be surreptitiously practising Islam, though an online survey done in 2012 showed that only 17% of the people believed so. However, it may be recollected that Obama has openly declared that he is a practicing Christian, to scotch the rumours. It may also be recollected that Obama was a member of the Illinois senate from the 13th District when 9/11 had happened. Many people still accuse him of failing to stop the senate from functioning, in protest, in spite of 9/11. Some even suspect his rumoured religious affiliation to be the cause of this failure, notwithstanding his public pronouncements to the contrary. Obama has subsequently gone on the become the President of the USA, but the shadow of 9/11 still looms on his political career. It may also be recollected that Obama had won the Nobel Peace prize in 2009, though he himself had mentioned in his acceptance speech that he was not so sure on why he got it". https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-acceptance-nobel-peace-prize PS: This is purely imaginary and in jest. It is intended to portray the unlikely picture of Obama being needlessly dragged into controversies along the lines of what is happening to Modi, and not intended to hurt anyone's feelings.