The New York Times has come under fire from Indians after an opinion piece highlighted forthcoming elections in India citing Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) suicide attack on a CRPF convoy that eliminated over 40 CRPF paramilitary troopers as “an explosion”.
“After an explosion in Kashmir and weeks of brinkmanship with Pakistan, many Indians are rallying behind Prime Minister Narendra Modi as elections approach,” the caption read.
Nonetheless, the headline of the story read “In India’s Election Season, a Bombing Interrupts Modi’s Slump”
The original tweets which got a lot of negative reactions were deleted and later another tweet read, “After an explosion in Kashmir and weeks of brinkmanship with Pakistan, many Indians are rallying behind Prime Minister Narendra Modi as elections approach[corrects typo].”
After an explosion in Kashmir and weeks of brinkmanship with Pakistan, many Indians are rallying behind Prime Minister Narendra Modi as elections approach [corrects typo] https://t.co/ZoWN6fUcnt
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) March 12, 2019
Meanwhile, some Indians took to Twitter to question the double standards of the newspaper.
Do you know……9/11 was also an accident ??✌️
— Kkumawat pinak (@KkumawatPinak) March 12, 2019
Explosion seriously ? NY times needs another headline change after the last "failed "headline on this terror attack !
— Ashish Daga (@ashishdaga1) March 12, 2019
Well ! An act of terror being diluted by use of word Explosion. Was the Editor awake when this was published? I believe US itself had been victim of terror and this headline should be touted as highly insensitive and irresponsible. May good sense of vocabulary prevail !
— Sandeep Vats (@MaySandeeep) March 12, 2019
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