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NYT's foreign coverage is beyond rubbish.
No clue why you think this. The NY Times will definitely win a Pulitzer for its coverage this year.
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I was going to write something along these lines myself, but this woman’s letter yesterday to The NY Times beat me to it. She’s absolutely right.




No clue why you think this. The NY Times will definitely win a Pulitzer for its coverage this year.


I can speak for the way NYT has covered India and it's a toss between being openly racist (look at poor India and it's space agency why are they spending money on it; why aren't more Indians dieing of Covid, etc) to printing absolute lies (I can give you countless examples).



The last good NYT bureau chief for this region was Lydia Polygreen.



I can speak for the way NYT has covered India and it's a toss between being openly racist (look at poor India and it's space agency why are they spending money on it; why aren't more Indians dieing of Covid, etc) to printing absolute lies (I can give you countless examples).
So you’re talking about its coverage of India? You referred to its “foreign coverage” before, which now appears to be rather a blanket statement.

I don’t recall any article that asks “why aren’t more Indians dieing [sic] of Covid, etc.”.



So you’re talking about its coverage of India? You referred to its “foreign coverage” before, which now appears to be rather a blanket statement.

I don’t recall any article that asks “why aren’t more Indians dieing [sic] of Covid, etc.”.
I have heard similar stories from my friends in Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc. hence said foreign coverage.


Their Covid coverage of India has been poor, which includes the recent article on migrants and trains for which they got a lot of criticism for selectivelty quoting facts and twisiting interviews. Back in March they were wondering why our death rate is low in a weirdly patronising manner.


But then again what can one expect from a publication whose idea of humour is this.





...But then again what can one expect from a publication whose idea of humour is this.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that the satirization in that NYT cartoon is on the western nations who 'act elitist' and view India as poor farmers. Clearly the newspaper's headlines refers to India's space program. So the cartoonist is acknowledging India's space program and the panel on the right represents the viewpoint of the elitist western men in the left panel.



Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that the satirization in that NYT cartoon is on the western nations who 'act elitist' and view India as poor farmers. Clearly the newspapers headlines refers to India's space program, so the cartoonist is acknowledging India's space program and the panel on the right represents the viewpoint of the western men in the left panel.

Naah, it was the age-old poor country shouldn't spend on space programs, which was also their general tone in their articles (again not directly, but mentioning the country's poverty when discussing the space programs). Even the American astronauts at NASA criticised it. And it was only after that NYT felt the need to apololgise.

By the way, the Western nations have routinely applauded our space agency for being good and cost effective.


It also goes back to the lazy perception of India which in the past used to be about snake charmers and cows, and now it's about just cows.



So my region has been lumped into the new tier 4 category as of Boxing Day. 50,000 transmissions yesterday across the country and rising. People keep saying “I’ll be glad to see the end of 2020.” Well if they think 2021 will be any better I think they are massively mistaken.



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So my region has been lumped into the new tier 4 category as of Boxing Day. 50,000 transmissions yesterday across the country and rising. People keep saying “I’ll be glad to see the end of 2020.” Well if they think 2021 will be any better I think they are massively mistaken.
Everyone in my school system keeps talking about January as if when the ball drops on New Year's eve someone will wave a wand and make everything okay. Our county's numbers are going up, not down. And if they think that's going to improve after everyone breathes on each other all winter break . . .



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Hubby and I were complaining for months that nobody in our co-op community was wearing masks or social distancing. Our neighbors just sit outside as a group of people around a small table crowded together, and they block the walkway to the front door. Every time we ask them to at least move away from our walkway if they're not going to wear masks, they get mad at us.

Today I found out that someone in our co-op passed away from COVID a few days ago. I hope they at least learn something from that so nobody else gets sick or dies from this virus.
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Their Covid coverage of India has been poor, which includes the recent article on migrants and trains for which they got a lot of criticism for selectivelty quoting facts and twisiting interviews. Back in March they were wondering why our death rate is low in a weirdly patronising manner.
I deduce that you wouldn’t like any article that portrays India & the region in a poor light, as it were. Sometimes the truth is painful. The New York Times has no skin in this game: it writes about what it sees.



Today I found out that someone in our co-op passed away from COVID a few days ago. I hope they at least learn something from that so nobody else gets sick or dies from this virus.
Wow, that is close. Try to stay safe.

The Archbishop of Connecticut did not preside at mass this morning. Our regular priest explained that he & another bishop have been exposed to a priest who has the virus. So now they need to quarantine for a bit until they have a negative result from their tests.

I didn’t mind. When the Archbishop presides it’s all rather a long drawn-out palaver. And this is not the time for that. Our mass lasted 15 minutes longer due to a lot of singing from the organ loft, but I guess this was ok.



I deduce that you wouldn’t like any article that portrays India & the region in a poor light, as it were. Sometimes the truth is painful. The New York Times has no skin in this game: it writes about what it sees.

Nope. Wrong again.


If something is wrong, call it out. My country is far from perfect. But I am just against printing lies. Like the fake Christians under attack narrative that NYT propagated (even wrote a church was burned down when in reality it accidently caught fire due to short circuit), or writing about a law as an anti-Muslim law when it was actually a law that helped to give citizenship to relgiously persecuted minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, or calling a riot (where both Hindus and Muslims died and violence was propagated from both sides) as an anti-Muslim attack, or even the recent piece on migrants and trains in Covid, where they tried to push in a caste narrative when none existed and badly twisted interviews. Unfortunately for them, some of the people whom they interviewed recorded the interviews and made them public showing NYT's lies.


I understand it's a case of ideology for NYT. Their standards have gone downhill, since a supposedly right wing government was chosen here in 2014 (in reality they are way more socialists and their policies are out of left wing textbooks). I don't like the current government and there are plenty of issues on which they can be cornered (economy, foreign policy, etc) but instead of doing that NYT has gone ahead and printed lies. Time and time again.


Same with WaPo who ran a piece stating children were imprisoned in Kashmir, only for judges here to see the piece and order an enquiry, and then discover that not a single child was even detained.


I could go on and on. Plenty of examples since 2014. But I don't want to derail this thread.


I will say it again. If something is wrong, write about it. It's important to report and even criticise. Unfortunately NYT's journalism is more activism and less about facts. Even several of their in-house staff have spoken about it recently.

Also, they do have a lot of skin in the game. Afterall money is important for any organisation to sustain itself.



Wondering how long it will be before people start fighting each other for the vaccine. Believing that they deserve it more than someone else. Hope this doesn’t happen, but predicting that it will.
It’s begun.

Hospital Workers Start to ‘Turn Against Each Other’ to Get Vaccine
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/n...e=articleShare



@WrinkledMind, I forgot to reply to your long post. We’ll have to agree to disagree. Your POV is entirely different from mine, but I have to respect it.



My wife is temping at a state hospital so she got the first part of the Moderna vaccine yesterday. Part 2 is the end of January. She said it was nothing and she feels fine.