Musings: Media: Tone of global coverage of India and China

Saturday, September 01, 2018

Media: Tone of global coverage of India and China

Via twitter, Shamika Ravi of Brookings India++ has these. Am looking for the paper.

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guest · 343 weeks ago

The whole point of controlling the press is to suppress bad news. Negative coverage is a good sign - a sign that fascists haven't yet won.

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macgupta 81p · 343 weeks ago

So the fascists are winning in China?

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guest · 343 weeks ago

You hadn't heard that China tightly controls the foreign and domestic press?

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macgupta 81p · 343 weeks ago

And how might it control the foreign press?

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guest · 343 weeks ago

By restricting access to information. Reporters can't just wander through China and pole into everything. The internet is censored. Lynch mobs and other misbehavior get a lot of scrutiny in India (or any country with a free press). That doesn't happen in Myanmar, China, or Russia.

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macgupta 81p · 343 weeks ago

Even so, e.g., this story is not getting much play in the world press. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive...
Nor is the plight of the Tibetans - there are plenty of outside-of-China news-sources from insiders in Tibet.
etc.

The number of "cow terror attacks" in 2017 in all of India was of the order of 50. That is just one bad night in Las Vegas. Or a regular two months in Baltimore, MD. And the cow terror attacks are in part because of cow-thefts. If the books are correct, cattle-rustlers in the old US west could be summarily hanged.

Here China is "re-educating" millions of people in an attempt to wipe out their culture. The silence from the Islamic world that is vocal about the least bit of anything in the West is deafening. The left is silent, god knows why, I suppose their favorite country trumps their favorite religion. The right is silent, probably because they look on it approvingly and they wish they could do the same.