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A Non-Practitioner's Opinion: China's State-Run Media Machine Frames the Innocent and Confuses Right and Wrong to Manipulate Public Opinion In today's world, with things such as TV and newspapers, it is not difficult to cook up a story about a country or even the entire world, not to mention a story about just one individual. Let's take a look at what happened during the Great Cultural Revolution. Liu Shaoqi, Chairman of the country at the time, was labelled a traitor, a thief and a rebel. All the newspapers across the country then reported the same lies, stirring up emotions and leading to the heartfelt hatred of Liu Shaoqi by some eight hundred million Chinese people. "The Great Cultural Revolution" itself was also a big lie which sank the entire nation into an abyss of misery for ten years. On the second day after the world was shocked by the bloody massacre on Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, CCTV lied to the whole world. They claimed that no one was killed during the "cleanup" on Tiananmen Square. When the Western media later exposed the lies, CCTV claimed that those who died were "counter-revolutionaries," and the soldiers who did the killing "solemnly" became "heroes of the country." The relatives of the students, who were murdered, deprived of their freedom of speech, could only grieve and helplessly watch the memories of their murdered loved ones being smeared by the totalitarian government. The Americans, keeping a close watch on the human rights situation in China, were labelled "American Imperialists." Chinese government propaganda led one to wonder if it had been American soldiers, not the Chinese, who had opened fire on the Chinese people and crushed them under their tanks. In fact, shouldn't we have called it "Chinese Imperialism?" Source: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2002/5/27/22423.html Published: Tuesday 28th May 2002 http://www.clearharmony.net/articles/200205/4821.html |
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