<story><title>In Its Third Month, India’s Cash Shortage Begins to Bite</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/world/asia/in-its-third-month-indias-cash-shortage-begins-to-bite.html?em_pos=small&amp;emc=edit_dk_20170125&amp;nl=dealbook&amp;nl_art=15&amp;nlid=65508833&amp;ref=headline&amp;te=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exergy</author><text>Also, I will point out that the NYT never, and I do mean never, has a story on India that is anything but negative. I didn&amp;#x27;t realise this at first, but now I can&amp;#x27;t help but notice that every article they have on my country is just how we&amp;#x27;re all going to hell in a handbasket.</text></item><item><author>leereeves</author><text>It certainly opens by pulling on the heartstrings. &amp;quot;This man lost his job and his marriage because of the cash shortage.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>dvcc</author><text>I think you read a bit too much into that title, it&amp;#x27;s just saying that the cash shortage is having an impact. It quite often mentions that it&amp;#x27;s nothing crazy within it, but uses the anecdotes to humanize a story; otherwise, it pretty clearly mentions that &amp;#x27;the pain is hidden for the most part&amp;#x27; and underlines that the projected growth only dropped around ~1%.</text></item><item><author>aub3bhat</author><text>This is an unbelievably biased story. Reading the title you might assume as if there were widespread protests e.g. the term &amp;quot;begins to bite&amp;quot;. In fact on the contrary banks have noticed a decline in use of digital payments due to remonetized currency notes. It appears that NYTimes really wanted a story about large scale panic&amp;#x2F;riots but not having found any it is now left with bunch of anecdotes while keeping a ridiculously click bait headline.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;amp&amp;#x2F;www.livemint.com&amp;#x2F;Politics&amp;#x2F;uJnq2fpl9UpMVNCbcfVxcK&amp;#x2F;Digital-transactions-decline-in-January-as-cash-crunch-eases.html%3Ffacet%3Damp%26utm_source%3Dgoogleamp%26utm_medium%3Dreferral%26utm_campaign%3Dgoogleamp?client=ms-android-att-us&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;amp&amp;#x2F;www.livemint.com&amp;#x2F;Politics&amp;#x2F;uJnq2fp...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Also the image used clearly shows Indian Congress party supporters (identified by numerous flags with the hand symbol) yet they are termed as generic &amp;quot;activists&amp;quot; rather than supporters of a specific political party.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>Most stories in a good news source are negative, otherwise they aren&amp;#x27;t really news. &amp;quot;Nothing happened today&amp;quot; can only work once.</text></comment>
<story><title>In Its Third Month, India’s Cash Shortage Begins to Bite</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/world/asia/in-its-third-month-indias-cash-shortage-begins-to-bite.html?em_pos=small&amp;emc=edit_dk_20170125&amp;nl=dealbook&amp;nl_art=15&amp;nlid=65508833&amp;ref=headline&amp;te=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exergy</author><text>Also, I will point out that the NYT never, and I do mean never, has a story on India that is anything but negative. I didn&amp;#x27;t realise this at first, but now I can&amp;#x27;t help but notice that every article they have on my country is just how we&amp;#x27;re all going to hell in a handbasket.</text></item><item><author>leereeves</author><text>It certainly opens by pulling on the heartstrings. &amp;quot;This man lost his job and his marriage because of the cash shortage.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>dvcc</author><text>I think you read a bit too much into that title, it&amp;#x27;s just saying that the cash shortage is having an impact. It quite often mentions that it&amp;#x27;s nothing crazy within it, but uses the anecdotes to humanize a story; otherwise, it pretty clearly mentions that &amp;#x27;the pain is hidden for the most part&amp;#x27; and underlines that the projected growth only dropped around ~1%.</text></item><item><author>aub3bhat</author><text>This is an unbelievably biased story. Reading the title you might assume as if there were widespread protests e.g. the term &amp;quot;begins to bite&amp;quot;. In fact on the contrary banks have noticed a decline in use of digital payments due to remonetized currency notes. It appears that NYTimes really wanted a story about large scale panic&amp;#x2F;riots but not having found any it is now left with bunch of anecdotes while keeping a ridiculously click bait headline.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;amp&amp;#x2F;www.livemint.com&amp;#x2F;Politics&amp;#x2F;uJnq2fpl9UpMVNCbcfVxcK&amp;#x2F;Digital-transactions-decline-in-January-as-cash-crunch-eases.html%3Ffacet%3Damp%26utm_source%3Dgoogleamp%26utm_medium%3Dreferral%26utm_campaign%3Dgoogleamp?client=ms-android-att-us&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;amp&amp;#x2F;www.livemint.com&amp;#x2F;Politics&amp;#x2F;uJnq2fp...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Also the image used clearly shows Indian Congress party supporters (identified by numerous flags with the hand symbol) yet they are termed as generic &amp;quot;activists&amp;quot; rather than supporters of a specific political party.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dman</author><text>If you think the NYT is bad, read the BBC coverage on India :)</text></comment>