It reported the interception of a Germany-bound convoy supposedly carrying tomatoes. When the convoy was searched in Slovakia after it had crossed Hungary through Romania, customs officials were shocked to discover 60 Bangladeshi men and women hiding under the canvas cover, suffocating and nearly dead. There is perhaps nothing untrue reported by the Times . Forced by crushing poverty and driven by desperation, Bangladeshis are leaving home in large numbers. There is also no conspiracy by the Western media.
Journalists report what they see.
As a New York Times correspondent in New Delhi, Ms Crosette covered the countries of South Asia for a number of years. Let us leave Bangladesh for a moment and take up the case of American blacks. There is nothing wrong, statistically speaking, in stating that every third or fourth black American has at one point of time or another been put behind bars. The fact that blacks are also America's best athletes, artists and religious leaders is easily forgotten. Many Muslims are fundamentalists and some of them are perhaps terrorists.