Thread by @thehawkeyex

#WorldPressFreedomIndex, governed by Reporters Without Border (RSF) ranked India 150/180.

Starts with the basics, who funds them?
Usual suspects- Soros, Ford, Omdiyar etc.

No, it doesn't stop here.

Read on.. because its very imp.
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First of all, no-one care about these foreign paid-out indexing, but then many within our country use these reports to malign every aspect of country. That's why its important to burst their agenda with facts and logic.

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RSF is a bunch of USA and Eupore-funded bunch of journo/editors/media etc who are "watchdog" of freedom of press.

However, RSF has always been under heavy criticism for its biased & agenda-driven methodology. e.g.
here it is Hungary accused RSF for "interfering".
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India's Niti Ayog also criticised RSF's report last year and so Singapore PM rejected them as a "subjective measure through the prism of western liberals. And they shouldn't be?
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RSF uses the absolutely crazy method. So its hand-picked NGOs and selected media ppl by RSF only to participate in 123 qu survey!

And sample size? 150 journos & 18 NGOs 123 qu for each country. Obviously, its far away from ground realities. But that's the agenda.
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As per RSF, "confrontation between “blocs” is growing in nationalist Narendra Modi’s India".

e.g. 15% (9 out of 61) of total world’s journalists are imprisoned in India only.

Ok, let's look into the profile and cases by case these "journalists"!
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Here its list of 15 cases that RSF cited for poor "freedom of press".

6 cases are J&K "journos", all with serious charges of trr links, funding, supplying arms, objectionable material, inciting public, disaffection to own country, waging war, all cases by NIA
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3 cases are UP exam board paper leaks. Can you believe this? What's the connection with their "journalism" here?

2 cases are urban Naxal Elgar Parishad & Bhima Koregaon rioting case (UAPA).

1 case for inciting violence, links with PFI.

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Now 4 cases are from Chattisgarh-
2/4 for writing against INC MLA
1/4 for writing satire against INC state govt
1/4 extortion racket

At least 3/4 case here actually look at an attack on freedom of the press by the INC govt in Chattisgarh.
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Dont scroll down without reading
details in pics in tweets #7 & 8, be an honest reader :P else you are likely to miss the fun.

As a dessert, here it is another report by The Street with funds breakup and bogus methodology!

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Personal opinion-
Now, this analysis done to expose the RSF "credibility", no-where I intend to defend the journalism in India. Indexing by not any third party but the reader/viewers themselves. How would you rate the "freedom of press" in India?
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If the "freedom" rating be bad - it should be for the intended harassment of one editor-in-chief by the "best" state govt or for a female journo who had to leave a "west" state for covering fascist govt and the list is long.

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If the "freedom" rating be good - it should be for allowing ranting 24x7 biased news, mindless debates, crazy titles, intruding in personal lives, misleading thumbnails, fake news, agenda-driven narratives & all without any consequences!

How much freedom do you want then?
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Appalled to see tv debates on this topic!

In this country public funded fact checkers are laughing stock, yet runs propaganda.

Field reporter rides JCB, enters UNSC guest room w/out knocking.

Newspaper are party ads.

Forget indexing, what is expected from “press freedom”?
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