Rindsberg is scathing about the NYT's coverage of the pandemic in India. But when you do look at the data, noticeably on rape in India, it turns out much lower than almost all Western countries (certainly including the United States), he added. None of these storylines are backed by data they are plucked from thin air and then "substantiated" by anecdotal reporting. In India's case, however, the coverage is a knotted yarn of accusations of ultra-nationalism, racism, technological and cultural backwardness, and allegations of a rampant culture of sexual assault." The latter is construed as having found a magic recipe for battling major crises, like the pandemic, because of its authoritarian approach to government. Rindsberg said: “You see this from side-by-side coverage of India and China. “The Times shows not just bias when it comes to India but an anti-India agenda”, Ashley Rindsberg, author of ‘The Grey Lady Winked’ a stinging critique of the Times, told me in an interview. The ad did not only flout basic journalistic norms, but openly stated its intention to help unseat the democratically elected government of India - the first time that a prominent western news outlet had shown such a blatant political bias at any of its foreign bureaus. The New York Times had recently posted a job advertisement for an India-based reporter that explicitly required applicants to be stridently opposed to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History.
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