Another NYT Hit Piece

Writing in the NYT, Ellen Barry pretends that the rising tide of support for Narendra Modi is actually a desire for dictatorship and despotism:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/world/asia/modi.html

Nowhere does Ellen Barry mention the despotism of the current ruling Congress govt. Nowhere does she mention the "National Action Committee" which Sonia runs as a shadow-govt behind a puppet prime minister. Nowhere does Ellen Barry mention the numerous sedition notices served upon critics of the ruling govt. Nowhere does Ellen Barry mention the water cannons turned loose against ordinary people protesting the Delhi rape. Nowhere does Ellen Barry mention the police state being run by Sonia Gandhi and her royal clan. Nowhere does Ellen Barry mention the Congress govt's attempts to muzzle political opposition and file criminal cases to silence them.

Instead, Ellen Barry only tries to cherrypick any statements she comes across which reinforce her own pre-concieved prejudices.

You'll notice consistent and diametrically opposite reporting from the NYT on Asia and Latin America. In its Latin American coverage, the NYT will portray the socialists as evil, while the well-to-do and the religious are portrayed as the only hope for society. (That religion, not so coincidentally being NYT's favorite Catholic religion.) Meanwhile, in Asia the local religions are portrayed as the roots of exploitation and inequality, while the socialists are seen as keeping such threats in check.

The difference there is that in Latin America, the Atlanticists exterminated the native cultures and replaced them with a European order, including a Europe-centred religion, against which rebellion rallied under the banner of socialism. Given NYT's sectarian preferences for Catholicism and Euro-centrism, Latin socialists are therefore automatically evil, while its rich upper classes must be portrayed as victims of class warfare. Meanwhile, the indigenous cultures and beliefs of Asia continue to survive, which the NYT holds thinly-disguised contempt for. Therefore, the NYT plays the opposite game of casting Asian socialists as morally superior, while their opponents are cast as Shylock-ian social predators and parasites. You can see similar bias in NYT's coverage of southern and rural United States, where the predominance of WASPs likewise present the NYT with another rival enemy sect.

Sonia Gandhi is the Jiang Qing of India - but because she's a "civilized" European Catholic, the NYT will always defend her. One has to wonder - at what point did New York become the new Rome, from which the ivory tower of the NYT began its imperial campaign to champion its sectarian creed against all others?