GLOBAL MEDIA COMMUNICATION

TOPIC – Biased covid coverage of India in the global media

NAME – Aviral Aggarwal

REGISTRATION NO. – 189202012
BRANCH – Cce
SECTION – B

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Regardless of battling to control the Covid-19 flare-up in their own nations, an
examination of western media covers India's treatment of the Covid-19
emergency recommends an imbued bias against the country.
Up until now, India has had the option to monitor the infection emergency. In
spite of the fact that the quantity of positive cases has increased and the loss of
life has ascended also, the circumstance is not even close to that looked by the
European nations and the United States.
India's "group regulation" methodology and early discovery of Covid-19 cases
in states like Kerala, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Delhi have
helped in straightening the bend. Kerala, however numerous states have gotten
appreciation for taking care of the Covid-19 emergency in their states. For
instance, Odisha's aptitude in managing cataclysmic events helped the state in
dealing with the spread of the infection.

Despite all these efforts, the western media is not sparing any chance to paint a
picture as if the country has lost the war against Covid-19. For example, the
BBC ran a story that Indians are dying with corona cases going unreported. The
story was based on quotes of two unnamed doctors. Many experts like A. Surya
Prakash, former chairperson of Prasar Bharti, see such reports as biased towards
the country. Surya Prakash has been critical about the way foreign media
covered Indian handling of Covid-19.
The Foreign Affairs, which published a lengthy article titled, “A Vulnerable
Population Braces for the Pandemic” in March, suggested that India is not able
to fight with Covid-19 pandemic, but contrary to this report, India has shown
the way to tackling the crisis to many advance countries.

Likewise, the Atlantic Magazine did a news story wherein the magazine even
turned the blue shading wheel that is at the focal point of the Tricolor of the
Indian banner into the realistic portrayal of Covid spread in the country. The
report proposed that India is nearly confronting a Covid-19 debacle. Another
report conveyed by Reuters said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu
patriot party has supported the utilization of cow pee as medication and remedy
for disease, "as though the entire nation is banking cow pee treatment for
Covid-19 and the Indian government is out on an outing".

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Parsing India's endeavors, Surya Prakash said: "Coming from the age calamity
was a typical marvel and I have seen a large number of Indian individuals biting
the dust because of the absence of managerial limit and assets and I am seeing
the current situation too where the nation is managing Covid-19 emergency. I
should reveal to you I feel pleased when I see the way the entire country, from
the Union government with the Prime Minister at the top, to the state
governments and from individuals of numerous gatherings, have met up to
battle the emergency. This is something I am seeing the first run through. There
are minimal issues like the Tablighi Jamat—that is additionally a minor
unsettling influence. Every one of the strict spots are shut and responsibility is
there to battle the pandemic together. Be that as it may, in spite of these
realities, western media reports have been proposing a wide range of alarming
reports.
Surya Prakash, who was talking at an online course held by the JNU bad habit
Chancellor, said: "Take the case of the predisposition of the western media.
DW, a German news source, conveyed a meeting of Arundhati Roy in which
she said that India's circumstance is drawing nearer destructive and Muslims are
being criticized and the Modi government is abusing the pandemic to increase
the concealment of Muslims with Nazi-type strategies. Was seriously stunning
that she said that the standard Indian media are skeptical individuals from the
lynch crowd and in my view, such assessment isn't right. We have a different
media and calling them destructive and individuals from the lynch crowd is
stunning."
"The most amusing charge evened out by the western media is that India is
administered by a Hindu patriot party. For their data, the NDA that is
administering at the government level is a union of 26 ideological groups out of
which 11 of them have situates in Lok Sabha. In states, 42 gatherings are
administering us, including the Communists," he said.
Specialists have additionally brought up that media reports, however
information based forecast about the Covid-19 spread in India is by all accounts
an exertion at "plotting" as opposed to anything considerable.

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