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	<title>Comments on: Nepal: Blogs and Democracy</title>
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		<title>By: blogdai</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/01/10/nepal-blogs-and-democracy-2/comment-page-1/#comment-967284</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Neha,  

Infinite thanks to you and Global Voices for your attentive coverage of nepali blogging.  

I am especially gratified that you would take the time to continually visit and critique our site at nepalnow.blogspot.com.   

Perhaps the single greatest reason that blogdai exists--and I&#039;ve not shared this with many--has been the tremendous sense of injustice a lot of us feel when we hear an often callous Western media outlet simply ape a biased account of events in Nepal without applying a morsel of journalistic integrity towards fact confirmation.  

Simply put, the West often gets Nepal wrong and doesn&#039;t care.  It is up to the blogosphere, these days,  to supply the day-to-day commentary from those who are in direct contact with Nepali events.  From there we can glean our own sense of the situation and hence, form a more informed opinion. Gone are the days when we are forced to rely on a Reuters or a Bloomberg for our Nepal information.  

That&#039;s why we do what we do.  So much is hanging in the balance in Nepal that a poor or innacurate media spin of events from an uninformed foreign media source can often turn a policy decision in Kathmandu.  

So, Neha, you rock, girl! Keep up the excellent and thorough work you do.  I am a fan!

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Neha,  </p>
<p>Infinite thanks to you and Global Voices for your attentive coverage of nepali blogging.  </p>
<p>I am especially gratified that you would take the time to continually visit and critique our site at nepalnow.blogspot.com.   </p>
<p>Perhaps the single greatest reason that blogdai exists&#8211;and I&#8217;ve not shared this with many&#8211;has been the tremendous sense of injustice a lot of us feel when we hear an often callous Western media outlet simply ape a biased account of events in Nepal without applying a morsel of journalistic integrity towards fact confirmation.  </p>
<p>Simply put, the West often gets Nepal wrong and doesn&#8217;t care.  It is up to the blogosphere, these days,  to supply the day-to-day commentary from those who are in direct contact with Nepali events.  From there we can glean our own sense of the situation and hence, form a more informed opinion. Gone are the days when we are forced to rely on a Reuters or a Bloomberg for our Nepal information.  </p>
<p>That&#8217;s why we do what we do.  So much is hanging in the balance in Nepal that a poor or innacurate media spin of events from an uninformed foreign media source can often turn a policy decision in Kathmandu.  </p>
<p>So, Neha, you rock, girl! Keep up the excellent and thorough work you do.  I am a fan!</p>
<p>-=blogdai</p>
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