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BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout

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Re: BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout

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Post by thaumasiotes »

pell wrote: post #4
John23832 wrote: post #3

I guess at this point I should believe the points made in the documentary. The reaction to it speaks volumes.

Absolute Streisand-Effect here.

Barbra Streisand faces an unclear tradeoff between publicizing the pictures of her home that already exist and encouraging the future taking of unwanted photographs of her home.

Modi has much, much, much more reason to fear that tolerating one scandal-raising documentary will lead to further scandal-raising documentaries, and much less reason to believe that ignoring the problem he already has will make it go away.

I don't think the Streisand Effect is a good analogy to try to draw here.

Re: BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout

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Post by noduerme »

jdthedisciple wrote: post #30

I most likely wouldn't have bothered with the documentary. But oh boy do I wanna see it now - what is it that Modi doesn't want me to see about him? Definite watch for me!

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My great-grandparents were victims of pogroms and my grandfather's family was killed by the nazis. The BBC doesn't go far enough in explaining why someone who led ethnic massacres isn't fit to lead a country.

Re: BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout

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Post by tompagenet2 »

koheripbal wrote: post #40
azalemeth wrote: post #13

Honestly, a lot of the documentary is a mixture of interviews and CCTV camera footage with a fairly even handed narrative on the top – it, by itself, isn't that shocking and certainly isn't presented in a particularly sensationalist way. I'm amazed by the reaction it has generated. Yes, there's some post-colonial history there and it doesn't look great that it's the BBC that has made it, as opposed to, say, a US or c…

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“They tend to always produce negative pieces about…” is quite an unevidenced statement. I would think fair journalism would produce negative pieces on a lot of people, and perhaps those where the relationship isn’t going well might stick in the mind more.

More generally though, what’s the game plan here if, as your comment seems to posit, there could be (or could be seen to be) an ulterior motive. UK has left EU. Wants trade partners. Not going as well with India as it could. So make documentary to make it go worse? I’m not sure how this would be the BBC being the puppet of the government.

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Lionga wrote: post #37

I Germany normal people get raided by a SWAT Team if they write "[Politician X] is a penis" on Twitter[1] and this was just some 3 grade local politician. So I guess this amount of corruption between politicians and police is available to all politicians in germany not just PMs which seems much more fair. [1] https://www.nw.de/nachrichten/nachrichten/23086941_Aufschrei...

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Re: BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout

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Post by krisoft »

Lionga wrote: post #37

I Germany normal people get raided by a SWAT Team if they write "[Politician X] is a penis" on Twitter[1] and this was just some 3 grade local politician. So I guess this amount of corruption between politicians and police is available to all politicians in germany not just PMs which seems much more fair. [1] https://www.nw.de/nachrichten/nachrichten/23086941_Aufschrei...

> Germany normal people get raided by a SWAT Team if they write "[Politician X] is a penis" on Twitter

Did the BBC publish anything like that?

Do the German police raid you if you write “[Politician X] is corrupt”?

Don’t get me wrong I prefer to live in a world where anyone can debase themselves by throwing insults at anyone, but I don’t see the paralels with the BBC raid.

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