From 2001 to 2008, Neville Roy Singham was a strategic technical consultant for Huawei. According to his associates, Singham "has long admired" "Maoism", the ideology of the founder of the People's Republic of China, Mao Tse Tung.
According to an August 2023 report by New York Times, Singham is "working closely" with the "Chinese government media machine", spending "at least $275 million" to finance their worldwide propaganda, disguising it "as independent content".
His finance flows via "a tangle of nonprofit groups and shell companies" to groups such as "a think tank in Massachusetts ... an event space in Manhattan, ... a political party in South Africa ... news organizations in India and Brazil". where it mixes together "progressive advocacy" with "Chinese government talking points". Ting Tong !!
Here comes SICKULARISM?
For long, I presumed -- its frustration for missing the 'flights' (called junkets) and Jugadu-journalism-political chamchagiri was responsible for what we all generally read in media -- especially post-2014 !!
2015 debate on Tolerance and writers returning Sahitya Akademi awards were classic ones.
So, we were wrong --- absolutely off the target !
The desperation was 'less' for the sake of genuine secularism or freedom of expression. Does it mean, the real concern was 'having pocketed the currency', there was Dragon Diktats ??? !! So, the moment you said -- 'There comes Narendra Modi' --- some of them will say -- "right winger, Bhakt and Godi Journalism".
The real Godi Journalism thrived with the blessings of/from Beijing and uncle Xi Jinping ? Ting Tong !! Nay, Ping Pong !!
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According to a January 2022 report by New Lines Magazine of the Newlines Institute, a think tank led by Hassan Hassan at the Fairfax University of America, Singham has channeled almost $65 million to a network of non-profit organizations, including Code Pink, that deny the Uyghur genocide.
In a November 2022 report, Intelligence Online revealed Singham was discreetly funneling money to groups lobbying against Western support to Ukraine following Russia's invasion, under the guise of "anti-war" efforts.
According to the The New York Times report, "[n]one of Mr. Singham’s nonprofits" in the United States "have registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act as is required of groups that seek to influence public opinion on behalf of foreign powers." -- Wikipedia
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‘China, Congress and NewsClick part of one umbilical cord’: Anurag Thakur
“In 2021, we exposed NewsClick as to how foreign propaganda is against India. In this anti-India campaign, Congress and other opposition parties came in their support… Chinese companies were funding NewsClick through Mogul Neville Roy Singham but their salesmen were some people from India, who came in their support when action was taken against them…” says I & B Minister Anurag Thakur.
BJP MP Nishikant Dubey has alleged that the article in The New York Times has exposed the “tukde tukde gang” (anti-India gang) and “some media” which joined external forces to indulge in anti-India activities.
“Between 2005 and 2014, whenever there was a crisis, the Congress had received money from China. In 2008, they had invited both Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. In 2016, they were talking to the Chinese during the Doklam crisis,” the BJP MP from Jharkhand said.
"In Rahul Gandhi's 'Nakli Mohabbat Ki Dukaan' Chinese goods can be seen clearly. His love for China can be seen," Minister Anurag Thakur said.
Imagine this, and how will fish-fry journalism 'cook up' a headline. Say a mob of two hundred people (non-Hindu group) gather in front of a building raising slogans where most are Hindu residents. Say in five-six flats residents start screaming 'Jai Shri Ram' essentially panic-stricken and praying; what will be the headline --
"Hindu residents threaten crowd with Jai Shri Ram slogans'.
Welcome to 'liberal journalism' !! Or, the Click and Neville have the last laugh.
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