Since #IndiaAgainstPropaganda maybe you all will find what this propaganda researcher has been writing useful! Here's a tweet thread of my articles analyzing propaganda during several key events over the last two decades (for new readers: I'm a media studies professor @usfca )
Pulwama, the most recent major #hinduphobic terrorist attack on Indians, February 2019 (Hinduphobic because the killer used tropes like cow-piss drinkers, idolaters etc.). Here's how @nytimes played propagandist: vamseejuluri.medium.com
Was Pulwama an exception? Here's a broad look at NYT coverage of Islamist terror attacks (not including 26/11). Stuff like how after 1993 Mumbai blasts they mumbled "Tamils", and after Coimbatore blasts yelled "hindu nationalists are winning polls": vamseejuluri.medium.com
When there's no terrorist attacks they need to hush up, NYT is doing its usual thing around the word "Hindu": here's a broad survey of headlines over many decades: vamseejuluri.medium.com
Now, to @NPR Soon after their reporter tweeted that Hindus should convert out of their cow piss worship religion (a trope her boss @lfrayer loves or at least "Likes")I studied their coverage: vamseejuluri.medium.com
#hinduphobia is a long term problem before the present #IndiaAgainstPropaganda moment was finally precipitated. Let's look at post-Modi years. 2019 Indian elections. An internal democratic issue, spun into Iraq war WMD style lies! pragyata.com
Like the war media did with Saddam, they did their usual lies about a democratically elected, popular, lower-caste Hindu leader too. Pankaj Mishra made the Trump = Modi case in 2016. I showed them some facts: huffpost.com
The inability of Western media establishments to honor reality of a no longer colonial world reeks like a grotesque vestige of racism and religious bigotry. I offered a gentle introduction to Indian reality post 2014 in @ForeignAffairs : foreignaffairs.com
But the relentless lies and dangerous dehumanization of India, Indians, and Hindus in particular since then suggests that they will dig even lower to sustain their delusions of supremacy. Here's how they used disease and disgust in early pandemic days: vamseejuluri.medium.com
Now most westerners and Indian westerners think all this coverage is just critique of 'hindu nationalism' and not hinduphobic propaganda. Well, here's a simple guide to telling this stuff apart: vamseejuluri.medium.com
Much more of my writing in Medium, Huffpost, Daily O etc. But I have to go teach now. Here's a link to my academia page where I will upload a new chapter on content analysis methods for this topic. #IndiaAgainstPropaganda usfca.academia.edu
Continuing my thread #IndiaAgainstPropoganda : Madam Secretary series on @netflix gives you the whole US neocolonial war machine fantasy. Baghdad Becky Blues link.medium.com.
(How come the misspelled #IndiaAgainstPropoganda is Trending and the correct #IndiaAgainstPropaganda isn’t) And PS: For the Record/ my work is #MediaStudiesAgainstPropaganda . Always. I will be here with my work even after hashtags fade and another TV topic comes.
Found this @firstpost interview 2016 on CA textbooks. ‘What’s driving this’ NN asks. ‘Idealistic Left appropriation by RW forces (global)’ I said. If @MEAIndia sees beyond hashtags & TV shouting only then #IndiaAgainstPropaganda google.com
Picking up the #IndiaAgainstPropaganda thread again. A key feature of post2014 propaganda is demonization of everyday Hindu life & symbols as extremist. @TheAtlantic did it to @amarchitrkatha . I counted names, titles, facts and refuted: m.huffpost.com
Almost forgot about this! Some prenatal health program for rural / poor communities got blown into a RSS Nazi Blond Aryan Baby eugenics scheme by media. Even Die ‘du hast mensche’ Welt. There was simple evidence plain to all who can read Hindi (I can) m.huffpost.com
And of course, @CNN and Reza Aslan throwing Indian safety under their self righteousness bus airing vile Believer just after race killing in Kansas City 2017. Called @narendramodi ji’s Kashi a “city of death” : m.huffpost.com
Many of us called it as it was when we saw it in 2015 with ‘intolerance’ etc Use of media as tool for riots loomed right from then. How much has happened since ... m.huffpost.com
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