Fascination For Foreign Media Or A Slave Mentality Is Dangerous

Indian society and the media have evolved after 75 years of independence regarding awareness, engagement, and empowerment. The bias and questionable credibility of foreign publications or broadcasts such as The New York Times, Washington Post, or The Economist are not only questioned by a large section of Indian politicians, writers, and journalists, but America's eminent editors, writers, and leaders are also misleading and put forth authentic facts of journalism with vested interests.

Recently, a report published in the New York Times on Delhi's school education by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his associates and supporters was promoted with cheers. A slave mentality and the issue of "special affection" for foreign media were also brought to light by this controversy.

In the meantime, I discovered Ashley Rindsberg's book "The Gray Lady Winked," which details the New York Times' writing errors, skewed facts, biases, and fabricated accounts of significant events.

Rindsberg is a well-known US editor-in-chief. This book, which is roughly a 300-page document of about ten years' worth of research and was published in 2021, has an interesting tale of important events in America and other countries around the world being reported incorrectly.

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