Posted on 03/14/2005 2:50:47 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Monday, March 14, 2005
The Washington Post traitors
By Joseph Farah
Should an American newsman be so "objective" he ceases to be an American?
This is one of a series of questions raised in an astonishing interview given by the managing editor of the Washington Post, Philip Bennett, to a "reporter" for China's official government paper, People's Daily.
In the interview, Bennett says: "I don't think U.S. should be the leader of the world."
He also says he tried to keep opinions out of the news columns of the Post. If that's true, why is it that most Americans reading the Post knew all along that the paper wants U.S. government officials to consult with foreign leaders and the United Nations before taking actions in the best interests of this country? It's not just because we read the editorials of the Post – which I don't and most Americans don't.
It's because we read the Washington Post news columns and because those news columns help set the agenda for so much of the establishment, corporate, "mainstream" media elite – which, Bennett admits, is losing its hammerlock of influence on the American people with the advent of the Internet.
For a newspaper that is not supposed to care much about opinions – just the news – this guy sure is opinionated.
Just what were Bennett and his paper hoping to achieve by sucking up to the brutes in Beijing, who, even as this interview was being published, were laying the "legal" foundation for a future invasion of Taiwan?
Are they hoping to replace the readership they are losing in the United States with readership in the largest marketplace in the world?
Are they hoping to secure better access to news in the closed society of China by sending a message of solidarity with the communists?
Not since Walter Duranty of the New York Times covered up the crimes against humanity of Josef Stalin in his Pulitzer Prize-winning reports from the old Soviet Union has as American journalist betrayed the aspirations of freedom-loving people on such a massive scale.
The truth is that 1.1 billion people in China are held in bondage and slavery by their military government. Yet, Bennett suggests the situation in China is "complicated." Never before in the history of the world, he says, have so many people been lifted out of poverty so quickly. That claim sounds reminiscent of those of Duranty – those that overlooked the massive deaths in the gulags, the firing squads, the millions of people who got in the way of this economic "progress."
What was Bennett thinking when he gave this interview to a "reporter," who is actually a paid agent of the totalitarian regime in China?
Was that a service to his profession?
Does Bennett view his work as an American journalist as comparable with the propaganda program of the Chinese government? If so, he may not be that far off. In many ways they both serve the same masters.
If America was anything remotely like the America Bennett portrays in his interview with the Chinese government apparatchik posing as a "reporter," the Washington Post editor would be summarily brought up on treason charges.
Of course, he won't be.
Because America is nothing like China. America is nothing like the secretive, imperialistic, colonialistic monster he describes.
But just because Bennett and the paper he represents won't be charged with treason doesn't make them any less traitors for what they have done and what they do on a daily basis – twisting, distorting and manipulating the news through their prism of moral relativism.
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(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
...but not as good as the old Grey Lady offerings - those can soak up avian droppings for days before requiring replacement!
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1362308/posts
WashPost editor's candid China interview: 'I don't think U.S. should be the leader of the world'
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Monday, March 14, 2005
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" Yeah, but it is still good for absorbing bird poop "
It would be better without the ink wasted on this idiot's blather....
BTTT.
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