Jump to content
  • entries
    35,857
  • comments
    14
  • views
    405,045

New York Times Job Description Sparks Outrage in India For Having Critical Remarks About India


ADMIN

49 views

The New York Times (NYT) is looking for a correspondent in India but the publications’ credibility came under fire because of the job description. The publication is looking for a South Asia Business Correspondent in New Delhi but has weird prerequisites and conditions for potential candidates. 

New York Times Job Description Sparks Outrage in India © Reuters

The job posting on its website described Prime Minister Narendra Modi as someone who advocates "self-sufficient, muscular nationalism, centred on the country's Hindu majority”. The posting goes on to state that “Under Narendra Modi, its charismatic Prime Minister, India has moved to rival China’s economic and political heft in Asia - a drama playing out along their tense border and within national capitals across the region.”

New York Times Job Description Sparks Outrage in India © New York Times

Kanchan Gupta, advisor to the Indian Government took to Twitter and said "NYT has dropped all pretences of impartiality with this job ad for a South Asia Correspondent. They are clearly looking to hire an anti-Modi activist who can also stoke anti-Indian sentiments in our neighbourhood. With this, the paper qualifies as a foreign-funded NGO." he tweeted.

New York Times Job Description Sparks Outrage in India © Reuters

Several social media users based in India questioned the need to make such scathing remarks in a job description and claimed that the NYT is clearly looking for a biased journalist in the country. The publication also goes on to mention the new IT rules saying that the “government’s growing efforts to police online speech and media discourse have raised difficult questions about balancing issues of security and privacy with free speech.”

The job posting also referred to the border clashes between India and China as a “drama playing out along their tense border and within national capitals across the region.”

It’s clear that the New York Times is looking to hire a correspondent in the country that has a clear bias and would be overly critical of the Indian Government and the Prime Minister. While criticism of the Indian Government is warranted when needed, hiring a correspondent in India that must meet these prerequisites defeats the purpose of unbiased reporting. At the time of writing, the job posting is still available to view, which you can read in full here (https://g.co/kgs/tgBdMd). 

Do you think a reporter should be unbiased at any publication and shouldn’t have to meet such prerequisites for a job? Let us know in the comments what you think about The New York Times job posting. 


View the full article

0 Comments


Recommended Comments

There are no comments to display.

Join the conversation

You are posting as a guest. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Add a comment...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
×
  • Create New...