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This Graph Shows India Gets Significantly More Negative Media Coverage Than China

BySwarajya Staff

India gets “significantly and consistently” more negative media coverage than China, a one-party communist state with rampant human rights abuses and no right to free speech, this graph shows.

The graph, prepared by Shamika Ravi and Mudit Kapoor, shows the average tone in media from extremely positive to extremely negative and uses data which includes coverage by domestic media in both countries.

While Ravi is a member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council and research director at Brookings India, Kapoor is associate professor of economics at the Indian Statistical Institute.

The graph, according to Ravi, takes into account all media coverage on India. It is not limited to the media coverage about the Indian government alone, she said in response to a question on microblogging site Twitter.

The graph uses tools from the GDELT World Leaders Index.

According to its website, the GDELT Project monitors the world's broadcast, print, and web news from every country in over 100 languages.

The project, which is a realtime network diagram and database, “identifies the people, locations, organisations, themes, sources, emotions, counts, quotes, images and events driving the global society every second of every day, creating a free open platform for computing on the entire world”.