What do you think looking at the headline?? There is a never before attempt going on in the government of India. Number game between both the Prime Ministers... Shocked!! What is this game means?? Here we will tell you…it is all about measuring how the foreign media exactly perceives the Prime Minister when he visits the foreign countries.
The information and broadcasting ministry is charged with this work, well Narendra Modi is doing far better than Manmohan Singh.
According to the reports, over 27,639 words were written in 31 articles during Modi’s visit to US in September 2014. When compared to Manmohan Singh only 7,596 words were written in 8 articles when he visited US in 2009 as a Prime Minister.
BBC and CNN, wrote 6,726 words on Modi's visit to the US whereas just 848 words in two articles for Singh by the Two main international media organizations.
As a chief guest for the Republic Day celebrations, when Obama visited India on Modi’s request the top ten TV news channels telecasted 255 hours of relentless coverage to him, but in 2010 when Obama visited India during UPA regime the coverage was about 82 hours. DD channel dedicated 33 hours 45 minutes to Obama’s visit in 2015 but only 5 hours 49 minutes to his visit in 2010.
Britain's Guardian newspaper, according to the report, dedicated 3,795 words to Modi, and for Singh, it had 1,408 words. Similarly, The Wall Street Journal had written 1,407 words for Modi, compared to 883 words for Singh. The New York Times had 6,432 words for Modi compared to 2,038 words on Singh while the Washington Post had 1,326 words on Modi and just 479 words on the former PM.
