What is the underlying relationship between sycophancy and psycho-fancy?
In researching the term on Goggle I came across this passage in a long blog commented on how the news media in India covered recent parliamentary elections. “Sycophancy starts when the Psycho-fancy begins. And all of us should take pride in the unbeatable treasure of psycho-fants in our country. A new mantra has originated: the one who weeps the loudest, at least gets a berth.” mrmulliner.sulekha.com/blog/post/2006/06/psycho-fancy.htm The contention of the author of the blog was that news media had definite biases in its coverage of the run up to the election and the election results themselves. His these was part of the bias was a result of the news media looked at the election through the prism of its own prejudices. In psychological terms, the news media was projecting its outlook on the news–maybe intentionally and maybe not. The second part of the thesis was that reporter
