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Re:Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day by AlbertCory on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @12:32PM (#34807420)
The BBC seems to have taken up a role as the anti-Modi network. I'd be more inclined to share their outrage if it was also aimed at China, Turkey, Pakistan, Russia, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, and every other state that denies freedom of speech and the press and/or persecutes minorities.

Edit: if you're downvoting this as "unsupported" why don't you support your own claim by pointing to something Modi-positive they've ever run?

Re:Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @12:35PM (#34807464)
> BBC seems to have taken up a role as the anti-Modi network

Could you point to prominent sources making this claim?

> if it was also aimed at China

The BBC created diplomatic chaos between Downing Street and Beijing with their Xinjiang coverage [1]. I'm not sure why you think their coverage of Russia or Pakistan has been any less scathing.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07g39mt

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000btl7

Re:Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day by AlbertCory on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @12:38PM (#34807501)
> Could you point to prominent sources making this claim

the existence of the video itself is the claim.

Re:Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @12:40PM (#34807521)
> the existence of the video itself is the claim

They made a video critical of Modi, herego the entire BBC has an anti-Modi bias? Yet when the BBC puts out content critical of Xi or Putin or Erdogan, it's not comparable?

Re:Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day by AlbertCory on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @12:55PM (#34807799)
[3] and [4[ are the same. Even have the same URL.

And you didn't mention any of those other countries I named. Apparently it's too hard to them to write about them, or else "brutal oppression" isn't news to their viewers.

Re:Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @01:09PM (#34808022)
> [3] and [4[ are the same. Even have the same URL

Fixed.

> you didn't mention any of those other countries I named

BBC's exposé on the Uyghurs was a big deal. That you missed it, along with apparently their take on the Ukraine war, should be a nudge to look yourself.

Re:Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day by Computeiful on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @12:36PM (#34807472)
Unverified and unsupported sweeping statement
Re:Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day by amriksohata on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @12:48PM (#34807679)
The BBC are banned in China, Russia and have had many temporary bans in the past in India (70s), Myanmar, Rwanda, Zimbabwe etc. This is nothing new, the BBC think it is right and every other foreign country is wrong lOL
Re:Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day by zakember on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @01:04PM (#34807942)
> the BBC think it is right and every other foreign country is wrong lOL

Actually that's what BJP thinks. Whenever anyone says anything against them, they are termed as a 'Conspiracy against the nation' or 'anti-national'. It is BJP who thinks they are right and everyone else is wrong, not the other way round :)

Re:Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day by amriksohata on Friday February 17, 2023 @12:15PM (#34837398)
he said she said, but the proof is in the data, they won the last 2 elections with large majorities, so what india thinks is not what the bbc thinks ;)
Re:Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day by jen20 on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @06:26PM (#34889229)
Alexander Lukashenko "won" the last election in Belarus with 80% share of the vote...
Re:Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day by actionfromafar on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @12:55PM (#34807795)
So, BBC getting banned is an indication China, Russia, Myanmar, Rwanda & Zimbabwe are right?
Re:Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day by jen20 on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @12:56PM (#34807804)
If they’re the best examples you have, all that does is further convince me that the BBC World Service is in fact the premiere reporting outfit in the world.

None of those are governments that right-thinking people have any truck with, and all have a marked history of suppressing inconvenient truth.

In other words, the BBC World Service usually _is_ right.

Re:Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day by amriksohata on Friday February 17, 2023 @12:12PM (#34837357)
the start of orwellian thinking, a media house which is not questionable and only it is considered right over many other countries
Re:Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day by jen20 on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @06:19PM (#34889167)
You're projecting what you would like it if I said onto what I actually said.
Re:Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day by ridiculous_leke on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @12:50PM (#34807716)
They are trying to increase their reader base. Negative coverage of those countries won't get them many readers as BBC is straight up banned in China and other countries don't have a significant population. In India negative coverage runs wild and gets them more viewers.
Re:Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day by twblalock on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @12:58PM (#34807854)
> Edit: if you're downvoting this as "unsupported" why don't you support your own claim by pointing to something Modi-positive they've ever run?

Why should they run positive coverage? Their job is to tell the truth, and if a leader is bad then they should say so.