In 2015 , Arnab Goswami , the former editor-in-chief of India 's most popular English news channel Times Now , criticised the hegemony of Western media has ruined the balance of power that is required . He also supported his argument by citing that US and UK together contribute 74 % of the source of global news , whereas all of Asia contributes only 3 % . He said . " If I had to summarise that in one line , it basically says that Indians are the ' least insular people , most open-minded ' , ' Americans are the most insular people ' , but they have complete dominance over the global narrative in terms of news . " Following the Chinese 2014 Kunming attack , in which Uyghur Muslim Xinjiang secessionists killed 31 people , Chinese state media and Chinese social media users criticized major Western media outlets that placed quotation marks around the word " terrorism " in news articles about the event . While some Chinese Internet users interpreted the quotation marks as attribution to the statements of the Chinese government , others accused the Western media of sympathizing with the separatists . China accused " Western commentators , with their focus on Uighur rights , of hypocrisy and double standards on terrorism . " Russian media and government often claims that Western media is biased against Russia . Human Rights Watch wrote in 2018 that the Russian Foreign Ministry has promoted conspiracy theories about " the Western media " and denounced critical news coverage . In 2005 , Russia established Russia Today ( later RT ) ; Julia Ioffe , writing in the '' Columbia Journalism Review '' , writes that RT was established as a soft power and propaganda instrument , aimed at countering Western media outlets and promoting Russian foreign policy . In the second half of 2012 , between 2.25 and 2.5 million Britons watched RT broadcasting ( making it the third-most watched rolling news channel in Britain , behind BBC News and Sky News ) . An article by Andrei P. Tsygankov on editorials in the '' New York Times '' , '' Washington Post '' , and '' Wall Street Journal '' related to Russian domestic politics from 2008 to 2014 found that the editorials were overwhelmingly negative of the Russian government , based on such issues as " elections , opposition and minority rights , the justice system , protection of property rights , freedom of media , development of NGOs and civil society , protection of citizens against crime and terrorism , mechanisms for the transfer of power , attitudes of Putin and Medvedev , and relations with Western nations . " Tsygankov asserted that the editorials failed to adequately reflect " neutral and positive frames and such as those stressing the country 's relative progress or objective difficulties faced in its development . " By contrast , James Nixey of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House argued that fair reporting does not require false equivalence between Russian and Western actions , and that negative coverage of Russia was understandable given its conduct in Crimea , Georgia , and Syria , and its poor human rights record . Piers Robinson argues that both Russian media and Western media is biased , writing " mainstream media , wherever it may be based , is widely acknowledged to be overly deferential to political and economic power and that means , as consumers of news . "
2014 Kunming attack
2014 Kunming attack
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