{"id":52240,"date":"2023-01-30T21:22:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T12:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2023\/jan\/30\/tory-peer-accused-of-racially-charged-attack-on-bbc-modi-documentary"},"modified":"2023-01-30T21:22:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T12:22:19","slug":"tory-peer-accused-of-racially-charged-attack-on-bbc-modi-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52240","title":{"rendered":"Tory peer accused of \u2018racially charged\u2019 attack on BBC Modi documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Rami Ranger faces criticism over \u2018deplorable\u2019 comments about Pakistani journalists at the corporation<\/p>\n<p>A Conservative peer has been accused of using \u201cdeplorable\u201d and \u201cracially charged language\u201d in a scathing attack on the BBC\u2019s recent documentary about the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n<p>Rami Ranger, who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2022\/dec\/20\/lords-open-inquiry-into-claims-tory-peer-rami-ranger-harassed-woman-journalist-poonam-joshi\">already under investigation<\/a> by the standards commissioners in the Lords, was criticised for comments made about Pakistani journalists at the corporation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2023\/jan\/30\/tory-peer-accused-of-racially-charged-attack-on-bbc-modi-documentary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Rami Ranger faces criticism over \u2018deplorable\u2019 comments about Pakistani journalists at the corporationA Conservative peer has been accused of using \u201cdeplorable\u201d and \u201cracially charged language\u201d in a scathing attack on the BBC\u2019s recent document&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1762,904,1831,62,238,433,4,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbc","category-conservatives","category-house-of-lords","category-india","category-media","category-narendra-modi","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52241,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52240\/revisions\/52241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}