A New York Times (NYT) tweet about Arnab Goswami’s arrest from Wednesday, 4 November, garnered significant flak and eventually had to be deleted.
Among other faux pas, NYT in its tweet had referred Shiv Sena, which is the ruling party in Maharashtra, as a “progressive political party”. The NYT article was titled ‘TV Journalist Is Arrested as Assaults on Press Freedom Rise in India’.
They tweeted a link to the article out with the following words:
“One of India’s most famous TV journalists, the conservative anchor Arnab Goswami, was arrested on charges of abetting a suicide in Mumbai, where a progressive political party is in power. The move was criticised by some as an attempt to muzzle the press.”
The NYT had originally put out the tweet at 5:30 on Wednesday, 4 November.
NYT, however, later in the evening issued a clarification saying:
“An earlier version of this article mischaracterized the political party that currently controls Mumbai. It is an opposition party, not a progressive opposition party. The error was repeated in our tweet. We’ve deleted the incorrect tweet.”
![Some have found reference to Shiv Sena as a progressive party downright hilarious.](https://images.thequint.com/thequint%2F2020-11%2Fb474dbc6-e857-435d-8f32-9368aa403d47%2FScreenshot_2020_11_05_at_11_08_51_AM.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&fmt=webp&width=720)
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But this entire episode with The New York Times’ tweet has triggered numerous reactions.
Some have found reference to Shiv Sena as a progressive party downright hilarious.
![Some have found reference to Shiv Sena as a progressive party downright hilarious.](https://images.thequint.com/thequint%2F2020-11%2F6dd8e3ed-541f-4f34-b83e-a653d7e19679%2FScreenshot_2020_11_05_at_11_31_35_AM.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&fmt=webp&width=720)
![Some have found reference to Shiv Sena as a progressive party downright hilarious.](https://images.thequint.com/thequint%2F2020-11%2F919af8b4-6d5e-4db0-a1f7-9ea5a3675bee%2FScreenshot_2020_11_05_at_11_24_53_AM.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&fmt=webp&width=720)
Yet others are very shocked.
![Some have found reference to Shiv Sena as a progressive party downright hilarious.](https://images.thequint.com/thequint%2F2020-11%2Fed3c5984-0019-40c6-acb3-9ec87e4c8e7d%2FScreenshot_2020_11_05_at_11_23_43_AM.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&fmt=webp&width=720)
![Some have found reference to Shiv Sena as a progressive party downright hilarious.](https://images.thequint.com/thequint%2F2020-11%2F46b4ea04-3563-4896-9809-99c849612909%2FScreenshot_2020_11_05_at_11_33_00_AM.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&fmt=webp&width=720)
![Some have found reference to Shiv Sena as a progressive party downright hilarious.](https://images.thequint.com/thequint%2F2020-11%2F4c7b256f-d989-49e0-b6af-fd1856a38e9a%2FScreenshot_2020_11_05_at_11_43_06_AM.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&fmt=webp&width=720)
There were yet others who mocked Goswami and said if he was a journalist, then Shiv Sena could as well be progressive.
![Some have found reference to Shiv Sena as a progressive party downright hilarious.](https://images.thequint.com/thequint%2F2020-11%2Fd049de27-9180-4999-9283-8c2d6dbf79a0%2FScreenshot_2020_11_05_at_11_34_11_AM.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&fmt=webp&width=720)
![Some have found reference to Shiv Sena as a progressive party downright hilarious.](https://images.thequint.com/thequint%2F2020-11%2Fea10fcb4-5d10-41a2-be6a-b70a0b8fff85%2FScreenshot_2020_11_05_at_11_34_26_AM.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&fmt=webp&width=720)
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