After silencing critics at home, Narendra Modi goes after foreign media

https://www.economist.com/asia/2023/02/16/after-silencing-critics-at-home-narendra-modi-goes-after-foreign-media

by miohtama • 3 years ago

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economist.com

miohtama• 3 years ago

Non-paywalled link https://archive.ph/P4tV6

programmer_dude• 3 years ago

august BBC

Shows where the author is coming from.

dpatru2• 3 years ago

No doubt the BBC has its flaws, but you take allies where you can find them. If you care about the truth, it’s important to call out government censorship. The foreign press is more likely to reveal unpleasant truths.

conz• 3 years ago

The BBC is consistently at or near the top of the "world's most trusted news sources"[0]. It's also one of the oldest news sources.

"August BBC" therefore makes perfect sense and is a defensible claim.

[0] https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/trust-news-sites/

[EDIT] typo.

dpatru2• 3 years ago

Punishment by process is a favourite tactic of the Modi administration when it wants to intimidate or wear out those who dare to find fault with the prime minister or his party. In 2020 Amnesty International was forced to close its India operation after its bank accounts were frozen. Last year Oxfam India and the Centre for Policy Research, a think-tank in Delhi, suffered tax raids. Indian media outfits, journalists and activists who have offended suffer worse. Reprisals, whether carried out by the government or its enraged admirers, have included pulled advertising, detentions without trial and, for Gauri Lankesh, a journalist and critic of chauvinistic Hindutva ideology, assassination.

I read this article after posting one [1] on the muzzling of Seymour Herst’s revelation of how America blew up the Nordstream pipelines. Politicians of every country love to use state power to silence their critics. In America, the preferred method is currently to work through the media companies. [2]

[1] https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/02/ron-unz/banning-seymour-...

[2] https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/remarks/twitter-and-202...

After silencing critics at home, Narendra Modi goes after foreign media

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