March 23, 2020

Mainstream Media has echoed the Chinese party line all the way

If you're a resident of "flyover country" you probably haven't noticed the Mainstream Media's all-out push to defend China as the world's savior, and trash our president as raaaacist or incompetent.

Western news outlets have totally supported China’s claims that the virus was introduced to China by "American troops," implying that there's debate in the scientific community on the coronavirus’ origins. Reuters published the propaganda almost word for word: “[T]he U.S. military might have brought the coronavirus to the Chinese city of Wuhan, which has been hardest hit by the outbreak, doubling down on a war of words with Washington.”

Other news outlets praised China’s efforts to counter the virus.  NBC News published a piece entitled “Coronavirus in China kept me under quarantine. I felt safer there than back in the U.S.”

The New York Times published an op-ed called “China Bought the West Time. The West Squandered it.”  The author praised the communist party’s swift action, writing “China had to contend with a nasty, sudden surprise, governments in the West have been on notice for weeks … China’s leaders did fumble at the very start, yet in short order they acted far more decisively than many democratically elected leaders have to date.”

The Mainstream Media have also claimed Trump's use of "Chinese coronavirus" is, of course, racist. “Republicans are using racism against China to try to distract from Trump’s disastrous coronavirus response,” wrote one publication.   CNN published a piece titled “Trump’s malicious use of ‘Chinese virus’.” (It’s worth noting that before it decided calling the virus "Chinese" was raaacist, CNN itself referred to the virus as the “Wuhan virus”).

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