Manipulated News from China and Al Sharpton

Manipulated News from China and Al Sharpton

When we used to think of “news,” we thought of contemporary developments that somehow could affect us, the country, our neighborhoods, etc. Lately, news has become far more manipulated, serving, as with the MSM, more as a vehicle for propagandizing than for the dissemination of actual information.

International “news” has long been that way, propagandistic, especially if it emanated from behind the late, unlamented Iron Curtain, Cuba, the People’s Republic of China, et al. None of that group have really changed much in presenting real news, they’ve just gotten a tad more subtle and they lie better than in the past.

Case in point is China which has just announced, via a “top diplomat,” that it ”does not want to ‘replace’ [sic] the United States from its dominant role in the world, and the world should not fear China’s rise.”

Said diplomat, Dai Bingguo, wrote in an essay carried on the Foreign Ministry’s website, which gave it an official imprimatur and which was lapped up by Reuters, “The notion that China wants to replace the United States and dominate the world is a myth. Politically, we . . . respect the social systems and development path of the different peoples of the world [and] economically, we wholeheartedly want to continue to develop. Militarily, we are not engaged in an arms race:” http://tiny.cc/k9rp8

Those statements are commendable, not for their truth and sincerity, but for the achievement of perpetrating four monumental, blatant lies within the span of three sentences!

No interest in supplanting the U.S. which China now virtually owns? No need for the world to fear China’s meteoric rise and its economic incursions into Africa and Latin America? Respect for the different peoples of the world even as China fails to show respect for its own people by forced abortions? No arms race while China engages in an unprecedented build-up of its land and air power while establishing the first modern navy in its history?

That was indeed a marvel of attempted news manipulation, Mr. Bingguo, who also threw in a veiled warning: “The international community should welcome and not fear China’s peaceful development, help it and not hinder it, support it and not hold it back.” But the world also needed to “understand and respect China’s reasonable interests and concerns.”

The next thing we may expect could be a demand that all peoples of the planet begin eating with chopsticks.

I don’t know if the Reverend Al Sharpton is adept at using chopsticks but he’s certainly marvellously skilled in distorting news events. IOwntheWorld.com featured a brief story and video clip of the Reverend Al in action.

Sharpton grants no quarter to the Chinese when it comes to news manipulation. . .
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