Posted on 03/18/2020 5:02:53 AM PDT by bryan999
BEIJING—China said it would revoke the press credentials of Americans working for three major U.S. newspapers in the largest expulsion of foreign journalists in the post-Mao era, amid an escalating battle with the Trump administration over media operating in the two countries.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Wednesday it was demanding all U.S. nationals working for The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Washington Post whose credentials expire by the end of the year turn those credentials in within 10 days.
The measure would affect most of the U.S. journalists working at those newspapers in China, which issues press credentials for up to 12 months and has recently limited them to six and, in some cases, as little as one month.
The affected reporters won’t be allowed to report anywhere in China, including the semiautonomous territories of Hong Kong and Macau, the statement said.
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Wish we could do the same.
As some wag here said - we should retaliate and expel some American journalists too.
Excellent news. Now can we send them to Siberia too?
Can’t say that you can blame them although most are on China’s side.
This thing over here? It's called the web. It's a virtual gathering site.
Anyone with one of them there computer or phone thingies can upload any story - true or fake - to that web place. And anyone outside of China with a phone of computer can see that story.
By banishing these news outlets' reporters, you have essentially handed the football to the new media.
The Chinese are good for something.
This may be an attempt to prevent news about the continuing ravages of the Chinese epidemic from getting out. Like every economy in the world, in China, the people feed the state rather than the other way around. When the people are locked down and unable to produce, the state starves. So the lock-downs have been eliminated, and work force has been unleashed in order to keep the state fed. The downside to this? The disease is continuing to spread.
“China said it would revoke the press credentials of Americans working for three major U.S. newspapers...”
Well how dumb are they?
US journalists/media are working for China.
When our news media is too dishonest for even the Chinese to tolerate...
China, you can keep them … they play for your team anyway ...
Wow! China, the purveyor of cheap $h!t rejects some of our cheap $h!t!
You no longer get to set at the cool kids table, China.
Now, buzz off.
I just wish tptb in China outright declared that ...
...all this corona hysteria and resulting economic collapse is cause by anti-trump marxist jew media moguls. This is just another form of impeachment and red herring distraction to sniffle his Presidency...
...don’t make it harder than it is.
No loss. It’s not like those “Trusted Institutions” of journalism actually reported the truth out of that country. They were merely the chicoms propaganda machine to feed the “round eye” lies.
So a communist state throws out leftist news groups.
One left wing faction clashes with another left wing fashion.
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