NEW DELHI TIMES R.N.I. No 53449/91 DL-SW-1/4124/20-22 (Monday/Tuesday same week) (Published Every Monday) New Delhi Page 24 Rs. 7.00 15 - 21 June 2020 Vol - 30 No. 20 Email : [email protected] Founder : Dr. Govind Narain Srivastava ISSN -2349-1221 India’s road to UNSC The death of journalism as we knew it unperturbed Wendy Mesley was sacrificed on Tuesday at the altar A great news from the Corona-scared world. of political correctness. India is set to be elected as a non-permanent Her 40-year career as a stellar journalist with the member of the United Nations Security CBC turned into ashes as she was first backstabbed Council (UNSC) for a two-year tenure on by her colleagues at work and then offered by CBC June 17, when the United Nations General management as a human sacrifice to vultures on a diet Assembly (UNGA) is scheduled to elect five of cancel culture. states for the two-year terms in the Security Council. Generally, such election is... 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As part of landed in Niger,” Turkey’s Defence Ministry the deal, Turkey will donate a number [email protected] said in a statement on Twitter. of medical and lab devices including “5 pieces of patient observation machines, 10 O n June 9, Turkish Foreign Minister Turkey has also provided aid to Latin pieces of ventilators, 10 pieces of oxygen Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu during an online American countries, Brazil and Paraguay. concentrator, 10 pieces of oxygen regulators, event called “Refugees and Displaced On June 7, a shipment of 650 domestically 10 aspirators, 2 pieces of steam sterilizer Persons During the Pandemic: The Need produced respirators from Turkey arrived autoclave, 10 laryngoscopes, 2 defibrillators, for International Cooperation” held under in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo. A video 3 PCR machines, 10 nebulizers and 30,000 the framework of Antalya Diplomacy of their delivery was posted by Turkish COVID-19 RT-q PCR diagnostic test kits”. Forum stated that Turkey has provided Industry and Technology Minister Mustafa aid to a total of 125 countries that asked Varank on Twitter. Turkey will also donate medications to for support for their struggle against the Afghanistan, which include 1,000 boxes COVID-19 outbreak. “During this phase, According to the Brazilian local media, the of Vitamin C, 1000 boxes of azithromycin, we once again realized the importance of 650 respirators are among 1,500 ordered 1000 hydroxychloroquine sulphate-used effective international cooperation in the from Turkey and will be distributed to for treating coronavirus, and 500 boxes face of global crises, though painfully. hospitals. Turkey has signed a cooperation of Vitamin D. Another 25,000 pieces of Analysts contend that the medical aid provided by Turkey is an attempt at soft- disposable N95 face masks and 50,000 power diplomacy to end its ‘isolation’. Turkey also wants to posit itself as an pieces of surgical and normal masks are alternative to China as a supplier for medical equipment. to be donated to Afghanistan as part of the agreement. When considering the severity and the agreement for the health sector. As part of “This donation is granted by the government Photo Credit : Getty Images global nature of the outbreak, Turkey took this agreement, Turkey has committed to of the Republic of Turkey to the government in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. early action on delivering help to others. send medical aid to Paraguay which includes of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan as “TIKA (Turkish Cooperation and So far, we have met 125 countries’ requests 50,000 protective suits, 30,000 N95 masks, a gesture of friendship and goodwill,” the Coordination Agency) provided one for assistance. We will continue our relief 100,000 surgical masks, 2,000 protective agreement said. thousand N95 masks, one thousand PPE efforts,” he said, addressing the event. glasses and 50,000 footwear protection suits, two ventilators and five thousand covers. Analysts contend that the medical aid Turkey also signed an agreement on similar medical masks to support Bangladesh in provided by Turkey is an attempt at soft- On June 9, a ruling published in the lines with the Oceanic island-nation of New fighting COVID-19,” the Turkish Embassy power diplomacy to end its ‘isolation’. country’s Official Gazette mentioned that Guinea on April 17 in Ankara. According to in Dhaka said in a statement. Turkey also wants to posit itself as an Turkey will send medical aid to Afghanistan the deal, Turkey will donate 300,000 surgical In addition to these, Turkey has provided alternative to China as a supplier for medical and Guinea to help these nations address the masks, 50,000 N95 face masks, 20,000 assistance to Western European countries as equipment. Last week, the Turkish National COVID-19 crisis. According to the Gazette, pieces of protective coveralls, 30,000 PCR well as those in Balkans including Serbia, Defence Ministry announced the arrival of “The agreement between the government of diagnostic kits, 30,000 extraction kits and Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Turkish military cargo plane loaded with the Republic of Turkey and the government 30,000 swabs to Guinea. North Macedonia and Bulgaria. The death of journalism as we knew it endy Mesley was sacrificed on Tuesday about her? pockets. No more. Today, the phenomenon ◆ By Tarek Fatah W Author & Columnist, Canada at the altar of political correctness. Mesley’s apology was not to the of ‘activist journalism’ has been Political correctness, Her 40-year career as a stellar journalist person who ratted on her, but born. Free from the supervision @TarekFatah identity politics, cancel with the CBC turned into ashes as she was to all of Canada. She tweeted: of an editor, these ‘journalists’ [email protected] culture and “white first backstabbed by her colleagues at work “I hurt people and for that, I leap straight to ‘opinion writing,’ guilt” have combined and then offered by CBC management as a am very sorry. I am also deeply never ever going through the to make the exercise of rigours of covering the courts, human sacrifice to vultures on a diet of ashamed.” ‘objectivity’, hitherto cancel culture. crime or natural disasters unless No, Wendy, you did not hurt the essential device in there was an ethnic or racial The CBC story on its website anyone. You quoted someone a reporter’s toolbox, twist in the story. reported: “Wendy Mesley and only that person, and she or almost a swear word. suspended from hosting after he alone is responsible for those Truth be damned. The pressure using ‘careless’ language in words. is on to bury the facts, lest it discussing racial issue.” upset the sensibilities of guilt-ridden left- I can walk in the shoes of many activists wing whites. Notwithstanding the casualties It left the clear impression who proclaim “Black Lives Matter”, as I they cause, political correctness is the rule of that Mesley had uttered some have done since the days of the Canadian the day for them. racist remark on air. At no place Black Action Defence Committee. I marched did the story elaborate what the in the Million Man March, having lived as The CBC incident rings the memory of “careless” language was or that a child in a climate of anti-Black racism that Winston Churchill’s speech on March it was used in a staff meeting and is ubiquitous in the Indian subcontinent and 5, 1946, in Fulton, Missouri. Free from that they were not Mesley’s words. the Arab World. But none of that history political correctness and No. 10 Downing Street, Churchill bellowed: “From Stettin in “It was not aimed at anyone, I justifies the depiction of Wendy Mesley as the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an ‘iron was quoting a journalist we were a racist. curtain’ has descended across the continent, intending to interview on a panel Some may consider it an exaggeration, but allowing police governments to rule Eastern discussion about coverage of racial the slow strangulation of what is permitted Europe.” inequality,” Mesley said in an apology language in newspapers and broadcast statement posted online.