The electronic media are particularly attracted to colorful crowds waving flags and espousing nationalist causes. As one journalist pointed out, when 400,000 people (far more than Hazare’s followers in Delhi) marched in Kolkata in May 1998 to protest against the government’s nuclear tests, the media barely noticed.
在人口众多的国家吸引一批人的支持并非难事。电子媒体特别关注挥舞旗帜拥护民族主义事业的色彩斑斓的民众。正如某位记者指出，当1998年5月400，000群众（远多于赫扎尔在德里的追随者数量）在加尔各答游行抗议政府的核试验计划时，媒体却几乎没有注意到。