Why do Indian English Media often behave as if everyone were living in cities without any poverty in India ?

Question

Often Indian English Media surveys a few thousand teenagers or slightly older people from big cities like CALCUTTA MUMBAI CHENNAI DELHI HYDERABAD AHMEDABAD BANGALORE PUNE and print their opinions stating them as today's youngsters' opinions. Leave rural people or poor people they won't consider youngsters from PATNA DHANBAD RANCHI JAIPUR LUCKNOW BOKARO BHUBANESWAR CUTTACK DEHRADUN TRIVENDRAM CHANDIGARH AMRITSAR ALLAHABAD INDORE GWALIOR BARODA SURAT BIKANER UDAIPUR NOIDA GURGAON etc. How can somebody interview a few people from just 8 cities and assume that the rest of the nation thinks likewise ? Why this elitist mentality ?

Answer 1

TO ATTRACT MORE FORIEGN INVESTMENT

Answer 2

They just want to show that India is in the hands of ppl from these 8 cities only. They dont care about anyone else!!

Answer 3

media people are those who specialized in any combination of the following:

bad news

generalities

acceptable lies

that is the code of the media no matter where you are on this planet India US or Russia.