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> 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 ster
by 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?
- thwertyu 10y agoThe coverage of China is very distinct too, this despite all the other propaganda ops they have going on. The dislike for India is quite old, and entirely of a distinct kind... and India for shame is only too willing to be a plaything of the WASPs. The hatred that runs deep in the culture appears far more visceral IMO... not surprising that Humanities depts in the US would reflect this more markedly. I'm reminded often of the picture of the देव-असुर binary; more amusing considering the ancient shared origins of IE people.