“‘Widespread persecution of Muslims’? Guardian report on Modi reflects everything that’s wrong with western media”, First Post, January 4, 2024:
“A recent article in the London-based Guardian newspaper on Narendra Modi’s electoral chances in the upcoming general elections has caught quite a few eyeballs in India. Truth to tell, neither the topic nor the content is surprising. Western media’s interest in India is on an upswing. The large, English-speaking, digitally savvy readership in India presents a desperate growth opportunity for struggling global media outlets. They badly need the Indian market to remain in business.
Not many studies have been done in this space but a significant one appeared in The Communicator, a peer-reviewed quarterly of the Indian Institute of Mass Communications (IIMC). In its October-December 2021 issue, the journal presented a bird’s eye view of how global media reports on India — their business model, motivations and preferred narratives.
Written by analyst Amol Parth who scrutinized over 3000 India-related articles in a clutch of western outlets including The New York Times, Washington Post, BBC and Guardian, the report titled ‘An Analysis of Global Media Coverage of Events in India’ points out how profitable it is for foreign media to run negative narratives on India based on sensationalism, prejudice, rank disinformation and reinforcing of cultural stereotypes….”
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