Irony or anti-India?: Lockdown reportage exposes Western media bias

coronavirus crisis has hit over 200 countries. re have been over 24,96,518 cases globally and over 1,71,235 deaths. At this moment when need of hour is for global unity to win COVID-19 battle, Western media has refused to change its ways. world’s largest lockdown in India has h a tangible impact in arresting crisis in country so far, but that is not what Western media is reporting. 

Here is a series of contrasting reports that show how same western media houses that demanded a lockdown in ir countries, have condemned, castigated and criticised India for having foresight to implement it. Is this irony at play, is it ignorance or is it simply a deep-rooted anti-India agenda at play? This is for reers to decide: 

reportage by New York Times

Editorial Board of news portal on March 24 published a piece titled “Coronavirus Is vancing. All Americans Need to Shelter in Place". This article assertively demanded a lockdown. One line re, “ worst of pandemic is yet to come. Listen to medical experts. It’s time for a national lockdown."

same media portal, 6 days later on March 30,  denounced lockdown imposed in India. heline now re, “For India’s Laborers, Coronavirus Lockdown Is an Order to Starve".

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reportage by Atlantic 

Atlantic, a Washington based website on March 31 almost lamented about how it was tough to impose a nationwide lockdown in US. article titled “Why re’s No National Lockdown” said “Enforcing a large-scale quarantine would be legally murky, even if it’s what country needs to slow spre of coronavirus".

Interestingly, same website h on March 27, published an article pontificating on lockdown in India. This article, however, was titled “ Callousness of India’s COVID-19 Response”. It claimed, “ government is showing how not to handle a pandemic".

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reportage by Washington Post 

Washington Post on March 12 published articles helined “First, China. n, Italy. What U.S. can learn from extreme coronavirus lockdowns". Interestingly, when India imposed a national lockdown, Washington Post heline re, “As India goes into lockdown, fear spres: ‘Poverty may kill us first’”. 

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reportage by Telegraph UK 

On April 16, UK based website Telegraph was almost endorsing lockdown in UK. Articles were being published that were titled “Five things Britain must put in place before it can exit lockdown”. 

Meanwhile, same UK based website was also writing about lockdown in India. On April 3, it put out an article helined, “Why India’s coronavirus lockdown threatens to turn into tragedy”. 

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