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I think you read a bit too much into that title, it's just saying that the cash shortage is having an impact. It quite often mentions that it's nothing crazy wi
by dvcc 10y ago
I think you read a bit too much into that title, it's just saying that the cash shortage is having an impact. It quite often mentions that it's nothing crazy within it, but uses the anecdotes to humanize a story; otherwise, it pretty clearly mentions that 'the pain is hidden for the most part' and underlines that the projected growth only dropped around ~1%.
- leereeves 10y agoIt certainly opens by pulling on the heartstrings. "This man lost his job and his marriage because of the cash shortage."
- exergy 10y agoAlso, I will point out that the NYT never, and I do mean never, has a story on India that is anything but negative. I didn't realise this at first, but now I can't help but notice that every article they have on my country is just how we're all going to hell in a handbasket.
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- dman 10y agoIf you think the NYT is bad, read the BBC coverage on India :)
- vinay427 10y agoI'd rather not, seeing as they couldn't even manage to find a photo of the correct country's currency to air on TV. :) Photo taken by a viewer: https://i.redd.it/sxd9if9qimwx.jpg https://i.redd.it/sxd9if9qimwx.jpg Nepali note: http://www.banknotes.com/NP43.JPG http://www.banknotes.com/NP43.JPG
- walshemj 10y agoI doubt that given that the world service is considered less biased - Mark Tully the BBC India Correspondent for decades was considered one of the most reliable news sources by Indians
- vinay427 10y agoBased on my experience, the world service and some other BBC programs seem to be managed differently than some of their online news, which far too often has basic typographical errors, and especially their social media accounts, which often post Reddit-style clickbait articles. Nothing wrong with that, but I would limit myself to the world service (though I have grown to enjoy NPR as well).
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoMost stories in a good news source are negative, otherwise they aren't really news. "Nothing happened today" can only work once.
- thyuiohh 10y agoCompare their take on China.
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoChina is one of those countries where any non-Chinese-based news about them, even just a dry reporting of facts and figures, is considered bias and "hurting the feelings of the Chinese people." They cry bias so much that it just seems like whining. There was one guy, Gordon Chang, who keeps predicting a complete collapse (not simply a crash, which is expected to happen from time to time) of the Chinese economy. Because his articles get published, the Chinese have now declared that western media has predicted a collapse of the China is imminent, when...if you search for China economic collapse, you only get Gordon Chang's articles, as well as the Chinese articles saying the western media has homogeneously predicted that. I don't know, perhaps they think western media speaks with one voice like Chinese media does, and fail to see the possibility that several viewpoints and opinions could exist. Likewise, there are many things about China, like air pollution and internet censorship, that the western media fails to convey the full negative effects of. This is mostly a technical limitation, for sure, but people still come to Beijing and are surprised how bad the air really is along with the fact that they really can't use Facebook there.
- denzil_correa 10y agoThat's a very bold claim.
- xoa 10y agoI agree with you that the NYT's coverage of India is heavily negative, though I think you could reasonably go far less specific and argue that broad focused American media in general tends towards negative coverage period (part of my major problem with it, "If it bleeds it leads" is not a new saying), particularly about international matters (because international matters are often shortchanged anyway, foreign desks have been reduced/eliminated, etc.). With that said, be careful of absolutes. I just went to the NYT's page for the topic of India, and yeah, it's massively negative, but just glancing through the last few months I saw: 1. "A Photographer’s Homage to an Architect’s Modernist City": http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2016/11/03/t-magazine/art/martien-mulder-city-beautiful-chandigarh-india/s/Mulder-slide-V1Q2.html http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2016/11/03/t-magazine/art/m... 2. "Mark Morris’s Love Letter to India, Through Music and Dance": https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/23/arts/dance/mark-morris-sounds-of-india-dance-white-light-festival-lincoln-center.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FIndia https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/23/arts/dance/mark-morris-so... 3. "How Do You Hail a Tractor in India? All It Takes Is a Few Taps on Your Phone": https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/world/what-in-the-world/trringo-app-india.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FIndia https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/world/what-in-the-world/t... That's just a quick look at recent news, and given that the NYT has to be feeling pretty down about the overall state of politics worldwide right now I doubt that's even a fair slice. Honestly some of those are actually pretty nice/interesting pieces, which does bring up a point: I've long given up on making media more positive generally, negativity sadly seems to sell pretty well, so you have to go to alternates/aggregators that are better (including HN). But I really do wish there was at least a filter for "positive stories", a simple binary the NYT or WSJ or WP or whomever would use to broadly categorize stuff that was about /disaster/war/death/crime/terrorism/fights/eldritch horrors from beyond space time/ vs anything else. If you just go making a list of other stuff from a lot of media you might be surprised about the kind of interesting pieces that tend to get lost in the noise, and the important perspective on progress in the world it brings. Broad categorization seems perfectly doable there, doesn't need to be perfect to be highly useful in raising s/n, and I'd love if outlets would just do it themselves and see how their readers react to having a choice. I guess at some point ML/AI assistants might be able to do a helpful job based on word stats, but it'd be best if whomever wrote the article just tagged it at the start.
- gozur88 10y agoWell... it's usually economic news, and the old saw is "economic news is always bad". The US doesn't have the history and cultural ties you see in the UK. And to be fair, almost everything the NYT says about the US is negative, too.
- chimeracoder 10y ago> And to be fair, almost everything the NYT says about the US is negative, too. Not the same way that the NYT portrays India. They repeatedly reuse racist stereotypes in their coverage - even in their headlines. I've never seen anything quite so appalling in their coverage on the US. It's a whole new level. It's gotten a lot worse since 2013/2014, which is when Barry and Baquet took over. And sometimes they can't even be bothered to do the most basic fact-checking or even issue corrections to online articles about India, the way they almost always do for US coverage or coverage of other regions. It's really awful.
- gozur88 10y ago>And sometimes they can't even be bothered to do the most basic fact-checking or even issue corrections to online articles about India, the way they almost always do for US coverage or coverage of other regions. I don't know about that. Every time I read an article related to something I know about personally, there are multiple problems. You won't see an NYT article about guns, for instance, that isn't riddled with errors.
- chimeracoder 10y ago> You won't see an NYT article about guns, for instance, that isn't riddled with errors. Left-leaning media (like the Times) is generally pretty bad when covering guns, yes. But it's nowhere near the level of blatant disregard for facts that the Times has when covering India.
- grzm 10y agoI'd like to read more about this. Do you have references describing the NYT behavior in this case? Or examples?
- chimeracoder 10y ago> Also, I will point out that the NYT never, and I do mean never, has a story on India that is anything but negative. I didn't realise this at first, but now I can't help but notice that every article they have on my country is just how we're all going to hell in a handbasket. Ellen Barry has been the South Asia Bureau Chief since 2013, and for some reason, she really has a personal vendetta against India. Some of her stories seem somewhat reasonable if you read them by themselves, but if you look at her articles on India all together, it's clear what her bias is. And some of them are just utterly absurd even by themselves. It's pretty disgusting.
- arjn 10y agoExamples with links ?
- intopieces 10y agoReducing growth by 1% is huge. The projected growth rate was 7.6% but was revised to 6.6%. That 1% is a percentage of the economy, not a percentage of overall growth.
- dvcc 10y agoMy mistake, I didn't mean to marginalize the 1% decrease, but I don't think even its biggest proponents expected demonetization to help short-term.