Media Criticism
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Visibility, Voice, and the Indian Muslim Dilemma
X.T.M reads the prominence of Muslim families in BBC coverage of the Ahmedabad plane crash as showing three things: selective visibility, Indian Muslim emigration, and a surprising willingness to speak…
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Browncast : Karnataka hijab issue
Nachiketa introduces a podcast on Karnataka’s hijab issue as worth having despite digressions. He argues that India’s portrayal in global media must be confronted, blaming Indian-origin interlocutors more than foreign…
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The Lavanya suicide and journalistic priorities
Nachiketa, calling it a rant, criticises a News Minute piece on a girl’s suicide for putting Hindutva’s spread and Christian forgiveness ahead of what actually happened to her, and says…
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The AJPlus exception! Fascism for thee, but not me
Razib Khan questions the fuss over AJ+ and its ‘woke’ journalists, noting its owner Al Jazeera is a tool of the Qatari government, and argues they practise guilt-by-association from a…
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The counterproductive (il)liberalism
Nachiketa argues that Indian liberal media weaken their case through polemic such as calling Yogi Adityanath ‘Ajay Bisht’, and that Bloomsbury’s de-platforming of the Delhi Riots 2020 book turned a…
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Little Qatar playing the Soviet Union in our time
The author argues that an AJ+ journalist’s attack on CNN’s Jake Tapper rings hollow because Al Jazeera is controlled by authoritarian Qatar, which he calls a caste society built on…
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Mehdi Hasan’s hypocrisies
The author argues that Mehdi Hasan should not use guilt by association, as in his attack on Rand Paul over his father’s newsletters, given Hasan’s own past remarks about homosexuals…
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When writing about India is actually just writing about America
Razib Khan argues that a Slate piece on the show Friends, billed as about India, was really about the worries of Western liberals, since the show has little influence on…
