The New York Times on July 2 opened a job posting for the budding Indian journalists however, for recruitment seeks bizarre pre-requisites.
Posting an entry-level job requirement on their website and on LinkedIn, the interested applicants for the position of “South Asia Business Correspondent” in New Delhi must be anti-Modi and anti-Hindu.
Apparently, the publication targeting the Modi government and is keen to hire the candidates who can write against the democratically elected government of India and can contribute to a discourse that forms up questions about the propagandist journalism.
The job posting open with, “India will soon surpass China in population, if it hasn’t already, and has ambitions of winning a greater voice on the world stage.”
The job posting also described Prime Minister Narendra Modi as someone who advocates “self-sufficient, muscular nationalism centered on the country’s majority.”
“Under Narendra Modi, its charismatic Prime Minister, India has moved to rival China’s economic and political heft in Asia- a drama playing out along their tense border and within national capitals across the region,” the posting read.
Criticizing the hateful job posting, Kanchan Gupta, GoI’s advisor took to Twitter and wrote, “The NY Times has dropped all pretences of impartiality with his job ad for a South Asia Correspondent.”
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“They are clearly looking to hire an anti-Modi activist who can also stoke anti-India sentiments in our neighborhood. With this, the paper qualifies as a foreign-funded NGO,” the tweet further read.
Netizens also took note of the job posting and have denounced the move of NY Times stating “it is clearly looking for a biased journalist in the country.”
Targeting at the latest IT rules, the publication’s posting read, “government’s growing efforts to police online speech and media discourse have raised difficult questions about balancing issues of security and privacy with free speech.”
Pertinently, with this job description NY Times is absolutely looking to hire a candidate who would sharply and openly criticize Modi and his governance in their coverage.
Interestingly, the New York Times is also comfortably okay to hire people with criminal past. Going by the job description, “The New York Times Company will consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local "Fair Chance" laws.”