bloggist takes a hit

i'm not suffering from summer laziness...in fact, i'm suffering from
just the opposite, too busy to blog. also, i'm suffering from a locked
down winxp machine running only IE with no blogging add ons, so any
page i want to add can't be done quick and dirty...
a recent critical commenter wants to know why my Christian abuse in
India stories never come with links to secular articles...i've been
chewing on that awhile. i have posted secular links before, see some
of my recent reply comments, but it is harder to get hits in English
on google news from India. that's one filter. i think the minority
status of christians in india probably means that beating up on
Christians isn't newsworthy anyway, another filter. and in a country
of a billion people, 2 killings a month, just don't rise to the top of
news sources, expecially if those killings or beatings or rapes occur
in the more rural, less sophisticated areas of India.
i imagine its analagous to an american black civil rights paper in 1940
publishing reports of lynchings or rapes of blacks by whites in a
little newsletter that the local papers wouldn't publish or report
because of civic pride. they don't want their locale besmirched, its
bad for business. so the minority report is easy to dismiss as
propaganda because it is hard to get any majority reporting on it.
usually, only other minority reports might arise. one of the secular
links i turned up was from the Indian communist party. a report about
violence against Dalit Christians from two minority groups may not
convince my proud Indian Hindu readers. now, if some of them would
become voluntary stringers and read Hindi sources and perhaps find
links that i never will, well i'd surely appreciate the help. i
appreciate the interest of this reading niche, i wish i could provide
more. i've entreated one source to provide any exernal links, but with
no success.

p.s.

here is a bio from one of my sources

"Dan Wooding is an award winning British journalist now living in Southern California with his wife Norma. He is the founder and international director of ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times) and the ASSIST News Service (ANS). He was, for ten years, a commentator, on the UPI Radio Network in Washington, DC. Wooding is the author of some 42 books, the latest of which is his autobiography, "From Tabloid to Truth", which is published by Theatron Books."

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