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A magazine owned by European old-money families fanning the flames between two foreign countries they formerly colonized. Just an innocent story, I suppose.

alephnerd 4y ago
Let's let Desi old money families like the Goenkas (Zee), Adanis (NDTV), Badals (PTC), Ambanis (News18, Firstpost), etc. write stories instead. They've never fanned flames. /s
- pphysch 4y ago
  If partisan Indian or Pakistani media reports like this, it's just another day in the office. It's obvious what the biases are, no one is misled. Not that I condone it. When it comes from ultra-wealthy foreign families that benefit from the ongoing brain-drain and economic exploitation of those countries (which is directly benefited by foreign and domestic political disunity), this puts it on another level of insidious misinformation.
azinman2 4y ago
Would you argue that pollution problem isn’t real in India and Pakistan? Or that they’re poor journalists because they have a colonialist mindset?
- pphysch 4y ago
  It's not about the facts, it's about the framing and omissions. They frame it as a "pollution war" and even use the phrase "countries that hate each other" in the lede. This is "FBI Statistics" level of hate-baiting. It's not journalism.
  - rhaway84773 4y ago
    Which part is false?
    - pphysch 4y ago
      Please read at least the first sentence of a comment before replying to it. Preferably all of it, though.
    - mikymoothrowa 4y ago
      The title, if it’s not clear to you already. It makes it sound like there’s a pollution warfare even though the article makes no justifications on how these countries are choking on each other’s pollution rather than their own. The article also talks about Nepal and Bhutan but the title has only Ind/Pak it’s hard not to associate a nefarious reason especially because it is the economist should have simply been “South Asia is choking in its pollution”
    - BeetleB 4y ago
      Which part of his comment claimed anything was false?

alephnerd 4y ago

Let's let Desi old money families like the Goenkas (Zee), Adanis (NDTV), Badals (PTC), Ambanis (News18, Firstpost), etc. write stories instead. They've never fanned flames. /s

pphysch 4y ago
If partisan Indian or Pakistani media reports like this, it's just another day in the office. It's obvious what the biases are, no one is misled. Not that I condone it. When it comes from ultra-wealthy foreign families that benefit from the ongoing brain-drain and economic exploitation of those countries (which is directly benefited by foreign and domestic political disunity), this puts it on another level of insidious misinformation.

azinman2 4y ago

Would you argue that pollution problem isn’t real in India and Pakistan? Or that they’re poor journalists because they have a colonialist mindset?

pphysch 4y ago
It's not about the facts, it's about the framing and omissions. They frame it as a "pollution war" and even use the phrase "countries that hate each other" in the lede. This is "FBI Statistics" level of hate-baiting. It's not journalism.
- rhaway84773 4y ago
  Which part is false?
  - pphysch 4y ago
    Please read at least the first sentence of a comment before replying to it. Preferably all of it, though.
  - mikymoothrowa 4y ago
    The title, if it’s not clear to you already. It makes it sound like there’s a pollution warfare even though the article makes no justifications on how these countries are choking on each other’s pollution rather than their own. The article also talks about Nepal and Bhutan but the title has only Ind/Pak it’s hard not to associate a nefarious reason especially because it is the economist should have simply been “South Asia is choking in its pollution”
  - BeetleB 4y ago
    Which part of his comment claimed anything was false?