“Western media’s hypocrisy in reporting on India and the Global South: A call for change”, First Post, December 26, 2023:
“Grey Zone Warfare has acquired a major salience in recent times, especially in creating and pushing narratives to form or distort public opinion. This is done to extract a disproportionate mileage and is enabled a great deal by the advent of social media whose reach, far and wide, has become exceptional.
A great deal is invested by various powers in powerful media across the world, through ownerships, extortion and offerings and financial leverage in the garb of pursuing a principled stance on several issues that are invented daily. But often this tool of misinformation, disinformation or skewed narratives is used against adversaries. It principally and normally need not be used against your friends, especially the strategic partners.
Western media with the connivance of their masters and deep state tend to target rising powers including India. This has been frequently witnessed since In the realm of international journalism, the western media’s coverage of India and the Global South has increasingly been criticised for its biased and often misleading portrayal.  The good news is no news is often the refrain. This trend, far from being a series of isolated incidents, reflects a deeper systemic problem and strategic game plan that distorts the global narrative and hinders mutual understanding and cooperation in our interconnected world…..”
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