April 27, 2021
Dishonest, Politically Motivated, Reporting On Covid-19 In India, Is Racist And Likely Being Pushed By China
James Doogue
These are the top four results from my google search 'India Covid-19'
'India’s Covid disaster: a crisis for the world' - Guardian
'India's second wave of COVID-19 is far more aggressive and deadly than the first. Here's what went wrong' - ABC Australia
'The COVID-19 Disaster in India: Chronicles of Agony and Pain on the Ground' - The Diplomat
'India’s giant second wave is a disaster for it and the world' - The Economist
According to the world's mainstream media, India's Covid-19 situation is an unprecedented disaster of global significance. When you read the articles they point the finger at the Modi government. The pictures are deliberately horrific showing third world conditions in the streets and hospitals.
The message is clear. Covid-19 is hitting India harder than anywhere else in the world. Their government and people were too complacent about Covid-19, and now they are paying the price.
The truth, as highlighted in my post two days ago, is that India's Covid-19 numbers are totally unremarkable when considered against their almost 1.4 billion population and the Covid-19 statistics from many developed nations. https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10223818615746166&id=1017971895&set=a.10200948390324824&source=48
Yes their health system is under strain in some areas. It would be easy to find public hospitals in poor, over populated areas of India which are in disarray, with not enough beds for those who are sick, and with patients in the streets desperately seeking treatment. But that's not representative of the entire country.
Like anywhere else in the world, it sucks to be poor in India. I've been to India and seen areas with a desperately poor population and areas of extreme wealth.
But India is not the backwater many people think it is. Just look around in Australia with all the professional immigrants from India, and the massive cohort of Indian tertiary students.
India supplies a huge number of medical graduates to the Western world and achieved the WHO's goal of one modern medical practitioner per 1,000 population back in 2017. Something only 44% of UN member countries have achieved.
Depicting India as some backwater where bodies are piling up for ritual burning is disingenuous if not outright racist. Chennai, which attracts 45% of health tourists visiting India and 30% to 40% of domestic health tourists, would rival any Western country for top medical facilities.
Despite the images on our screens and in the press, Indian people aren't dropping like flies in the streets. Out of a population of 1.39 billion, as of two days ago, they had just 8,944 Covid-19 infected patients considered critical. That's fewer than the US with 9,935 critical patients and a quarter of India's population. France had 66% as many critical patients as India with less than 5% of India's population.
These aren't cherry-picked numbers. You can see for yourself from the data that India's Covid-19 numbers do not represent the apocalypse presented by the mainstream media.
So why is the mainstream media reporting about Covid-19 in India so dishonest? I don't think it's as simple as bad news sells. If that were the case, the media could have taken any number of countries with worse Covid-19 numbers than India and beat that story up.
Why aren't they declaring the Covid-19 disasters in France or Germany or Spain or Turkey for instance? I think there are definitely political motives at play.
The media went hard about the US Covid-19 numbers when the Republican Donald Trump was in office. Since Democrat Joe Biden has taken over, the media has definitely eased off. That's despite the fact that relative to India, the US is still a Covid-19 disaster. With at least four times as many critical Covid-19 patients on a per capita basis compared to India.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was a good ally of Donald Trump and the media certainly didn't like that. They are happy to criticise Modi's government for not going hard on lock-downs. Not that they understand India is a Commonwealth of states. Nor that a large portion of India's poor live from day to day. A lock-down would see them starve.
The mainstream media's natural Left-leaning reporting has been readily taken advantage of by China’s rapid media expansion across the world. China's goal, in the words of President Xi Jinping, is to "tell China’s story wellâ€. In practice, telling China’s story well looks a lot like serving the ideological aims of the state.
Beijing has been buying up media outlets and training scores of foreign journalists to "tell China’s story well’ – as part of a worldwide propaganda campaign of astonishing scope.
Cash strapped news organisations are readily placing international coverage by Chinese owned or controlled media organisations, and they are even running articles on a pay for placement basis which appear as objective news articles.
'The state-run English-language newspaper China Daily has struck deals with at least 30 foreign newspapers – including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the UK Telegraph – to carry four- or eight-page inserts called China Watch, which can appear as often as monthly. The supplements take a didactic, old-school approach to propaganda; ...' https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/dec/07/china-plan-for-global-media-dominance-propaganda-xi-jinping
Western journalists and media organisations either don't care they are being used as China's shills, especially if it helps the Left side of politics, or they are too stupid to realise they are being used. But those cashing the cheques can't claim to be stupid.
The Chinese influence runs deep through the media, think tanks and academia. This article is a classic example. 'Let’s end the COVID-19 blame game: Reconsidering China’s role in the pandemic', https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/08/19/lets-end-the-covid-19-blame-game-reconsidering-chinas-role-in-the-pandemic/
The author of the article was Jamie P. Horsley who happens to be a Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School and Visiting Fellow - Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center. The article was published by the well known Think Tank, the Brookings Institute.
Yale, other Universities, and think tanks have come under scrutiny in recent years for their financial links with foreign governments including China. https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2020/02/12/doe-to-investigate-yales-foreign-funding-disclosure/
With her pedigree it isn't surprising Ms Horsley seeks to absolve China for not being honest about the virus, '...it is not clear that greater transparency in the first weeks would have prevented its spread overseas.' what absolutely transparent rubbish!
She wrote 'China, in turn, has accused the United States of mismanagement and failure to take the pandemic seriously.' Adding the link to the article 'In Depth: How the U.S. Missed Its Window for Taming the Covid-19 Virus' This was written by Zeng Jia, Ma Danmeng, Zhang Qi and Denise Jia of the Caixin media group.
Media Bias Fact Check (MBFC), rated Caixin Media as a 'Questionable' source because of its ties to the Chinese Communist Party and extreme bias, consistent promotion of propaganda/conspiracies, poor or no sourcing to credible information, a complete lack of transparency and/or is fake news. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/caixin-global/
So A China trained Western academic writes a softball article shifting blame from China for the Wuhan virus and cites an article in the CCP controlled Caixin Media. That article then gets picked up and quoted by the lazy mainstream media without question, because it was written by a Western based academic from a well known Think Tank.
China would have three key reasons they'd be happy to encourage the beat-up about Covid-19 in India.
1. Focussing on India's Covid-19 troubles distract from the origins of the virus, highlights the failures of the India, and promotes China which has successfully managed their Covid-19 response (according to their own news sources), as a global leader.
2. India and China are currently involved in a border conflict. China will take any opportunity to humiliate India and her citizens because that will foment discontent with India's leadership.
3. The current trade war and tensions between China , the West and countries involved in the South China Sea dispute will see India as a main player and potential beneficiary. China will do what it can to discourage trade with India. Positioning India as a plague ridden nation with collapsing health infrastructure will help do that.
It's frustrating that Western mainstream media are being wittingly or unwittingly used by China against India, spreading misinformation, while pursuing their relentless appetite for disaster news.
These are the top four results from my google search 'India Covid-19'
'India’s Covid disaster: a crisis for the world' - Guardian
'India's second wave of COVID-19 is far more aggressive and deadly than the first. Here's what went wrong' - ABC Australia
'The COVID-19 Disaster in India: Chronicles of Agony and Pain on the Ground' - The Diplomat
'India’s giant second wave is a disaster for it and the world' - The Economist
According to the world's mainstream media, India's Covid-19 situation is an unprecedented disaster of global significance. When you read the articles they point the finger at the Modi government. The pictures are deliberately horrific showing third world conditions in the streets and hospitals.
The message is clear. Covid-19 is hitting India harder than anywhere else in the world. Their government and people were too complacent about Covid-19, and now they are paying the price.
The truth, as highlighted in my post two days ago, is that India's Covid-19 numbers are totally unremarkable when considered against their almost 1.4 billion population and the Covid-19 statistics from many developed nations. https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10223818615746166&id=1017971895&set=a.10200948390324824&source=48
Yes their health system is under strain in some areas. It would be easy to find public hospitals in poor, over populated areas of India which are in disarray, with not enough beds for those who are sick, and with patients in the streets desperately seeking treatment. But that's not representative of the entire country.
Like anywhere else in the world, it sucks to be poor in India. I've been to India and seen areas with a desperately poor population and areas of extreme wealth.
But India is not the backwater many people think it is. Just look around in Australia with all the professional immigrants from India, and the massive cohort of Indian tertiary students.
India supplies a huge number of medical graduates to the Western world and achieved the WHO's goal of one modern medical practitioner per 1,000 population back in 2017. Something only 44% of UN member countries have achieved.
Depicting India as some backwater where bodies are piling up for ritual burning is disingenuous if not outright racist. Chennai, which attracts 45% of health tourists visiting India and 30% to 40% of domestic health tourists, would rival any Western country for top medical facilities.
Despite the images on our screens and in the press, Indian people aren't dropping like flies in the streets. Out of a population of 1.39 billion, as of two days ago, they had just 8,944 Covid-19 infected patients considered critical. That's fewer than the US with 9,935 critical patients and a quarter of India's population. France had 66% as many critical patients as India with less than 5% of India's population.
These aren't cherry-picked numbers. You can see for yourself from the data that India's Covid-19 numbers do not represent the apocalypse presented by the mainstream media.
So why is the mainstream media reporting about Covid-19 in India so dishonest? I don't think it's as simple as bad news sells. If that were the case, the media could have taken any number of countries with worse Covid-19 numbers than India and beat that story up.
Why aren't they declaring the Covid-19 disasters in France or Germany or Spain or Turkey for instance? I think there are definitely political motives at play.
The media went hard about the US Covid-19 numbers when the Republican Donald Trump was in office. Since Democrat Joe Biden has taken over, the media has definitely eased off. That's despite the fact that relative to India, the US is still a Covid-19 disaster. With at least four times as many critical Covid-19 patients on a per capita basis compared to India.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was a good ally of Donald Trump and the media certainly didn't like that. They are happy to criticise Modi's government for not going hard on lock-downs. Not that they understand India is a Commonwealth of states. Nor that a large portion of India's poor live from day to day. A lock-down would see them starve.
The mainstream media's natural Left-leaning reporting has been readily taken advantage of by China’s rapid media expansion across the world. China's goal, in the words of President Xi Jinping, is to "tell China’s story wellâ€. In practice, telling China’s story well looks a lot like serving the ideological aims of the state.
Beijing has been buying up media outlets and training scores of foreign journalists to "tell China’s story well’ – as part of a worldwide propaganda campaign of astonishing scope.
Cash strapped news organisations are readily placing international coverage by Chinese owned or controlled media organisations, and they are even running articles on a pay for placement basis which appear as objective news articles.
'The state-run English-language newspaper China Daily has struck deals with at least 30 foreign newspapers – including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the UK Telegraph – to carry four- or eight-page inserts called China Watch, which can appear as often as monthly. The supplements take a didactic, old-school approach to propaganda; ...' https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/dec/07/china-plan-for-global-media-dominance-propaganda-xi-jinping
Western journalists and media organisations either don't care they are being used as China's shills, especially if it helps the Left side of politics, or they are too stupid to realise they are being used. But those cashing the cheques can't claim to be stupid.
The Chinese influence runs deep through the media, think tanks and academia. This article is a classic example. 'Let’s end the COVID-19 blame game: Reconsidering China’s role in the pandemic', https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/08/19/lets-end-the-covid-19-blame-game-reconsidering-chinas-role-in-the-pandemic/
The author of the article was Jamie P. Horsley who happens to be a Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School and Visiting Fellow - Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center. The article was published by the well known Think Tank, the Brookings Institute.
Yale, other Universities, and think tanks have come under scrutiny in recent years for their financial links with foreign governments including China. https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2020/02/12/doe-to-investigate-yales-foreign-funding-disclosure/
With her pedigree it isn't surprising Ms Horsley seeks to absolve China for not being honest about the virus, '...it is not clear that greater transparency in the first weeks would have prevented its spread overseas.' what absolutely transparent rubbish!
She wrote 'China, in turn, has accused the United States of mismanagement and failure to take the pandemic seriously.' Adding the link to the article 'In Depth: How the U.S. Missed Its Window for Taming the Covid-19 Virus' This was written by Zeng Jia, Ma Danmeng, Zhang Qi and Denise Jia of the Caixin media group.
Media Bias Fact Check (MBFC), rated Caixin Media as a 'Questionable' source because of its ties to the Chinese Communist Party and extreme bias, consistent promotion of propaganda/conspiracies, poor or no sourcing to credible information, a complete lack of transparency and/or is fake news. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/caixin-global/
So A China trained Western academic writes a softball article shifting blame from China for the Wuhan virus and cites an article in the CCP controlled Caixin Media. That article then gets picked up and quoted by the lazy mainstream media without question, because it was written by a Western based academic from a well known Think Tank.
China would have three key reasons they'd be happy to encourage the beat-up about Covid-19 in India.
1. Focussing on India's Covid-19 troubles distract from the origins of the virus, highlights the failures of the India, and promotes China which has successfully managed their Covid-19 response (according to their own news sources), as a global leader.
2. India and China are currently involved in a border conflict. China will take any opportunity to humiliate India and her citizens because that will foment discontent with India's leadership.
3. The current trade war and tensions between China , the West and countries involved in the South China Sea dispute will see India as a main player and potential beneficiary. China will do what it can to discourage trade with India. Positioning India as a plague ridden nation with collapsing health infrastructure will help do that.
It's frustrating that Western mainstream media are being wittingly or unwittingly used by China against India, spreading misinformation, while pursuing their relentless appetite for disaster news.
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I was watching the news on a San Diego station, talking about crisis levels of severe cases and overwhelmed emergency rooms. The next day I got in my car and drove to five hospitals to see for myself.
Lines waiting to get in the ER? Nope. The ER parking lots were essentially empty at all five. I peered in. The biggest number of people in the waiting room was five. Overwhelmed? Employees in scrubs were standing around chatting with each other. I saw no one wearing "personal protective gear.â€
The same was true at all five hospitals.
Lines waiting to get in the ER? Nope. The ER parking lots were essentially empty at all five. I peered in. The biggest number of people in the waiting room was five. Overwhelmed? Employees in scrubs were standing around chatting with each other. I saw no one wearing "personal protective gear.â€
The same was true at all five hospitals.
Posted by: Bill H at April 27, 2021 07:47 AM (/sW5m)
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Yeah Bill; it's a strange "surge" in cases where hospitals are pretty much empty, isn't it!
I've been taking my wife to radiation oncology every day, and that is next to the ER at one of the busier hospitals. The ER has been pretty much empty every day. No major crush trying to get in.
This is the biggest lie I've ever seen by the media.
I've been taking my wife to radiation oncology every day, and that is next to the ER at one of the busier hospitals. The ER has been pretty much empty every day. No major crush trying to get in.
This is the biggest lie I've ever seen by the media.
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