Posted on 02/04/2009 8:13:26 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Beijing Plans to Infiltrate Mainstream Western Media
By chinafreepress.org (translation)
Jan 28, 2009 - 11:06:03 AM
Boxun Exclusive
In mid-January 2009, a week before Chinese New Year, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party held a meeting to discuss its plan for foreign propaganda work in the year to come. It summarized the past decade's progress in co-opting international Chinese-language media into doing the propaganda work of the Chinese Communist Party.
The Politburo decided that in addition to continuing its Chinese-language international image promotion, it plans to infiltrate and influence mainstream Western media. The meeting cited the example of the Russian former KGB officer and present tycoon who has purchase the defunct British newspaper The Evening Standard. This overt an approach is undesirable, the meeting concluded, and instead influential overseas Chinese in the media business should be utilized to purchase and operate mainstream Western media organs.
The spring 2008 coverage of the uprising in Tibet by CNN and other Western mainstream media organs sounded an alarm. China's Politburo concluded that it must counter this by infiltrating and influencing Western coverage of China and China's image in the international media.
The opportunity is presently ripe because of the downturn in the world economy. Many media organizations are in economic difficulty, even going bankrupt, and they can be purchased and it will look like an investment and business opportunity and not the attempt of the Chinese government to infiltrate Western media organs and influence Western popular opinion toward China that it is.
Full Chinese report at:
http://news.boxun.com/news/gb/china/2009/01/200901280838.shtml
Ping!
Other than that, not much different than the current MSM.
Might even be an improvement.
Didn’t the Russian Communists already do that in the 90’s?
is this from the waybackmachine?
If they play their cards right the MSM will pay the chicoms to take them over.
HAAAAAAAAA! Couldn’t possibly by more left wing that the current crop that run it.
What! I had assumed that the ChiComs had done that a long time ago!
My thoughts exactly. The ChiComs were smart enough to abolish Marxism in favor of Facism. Our Libtards haven’t reached that level of education yet.
The American left media elite won't be able to get work anywhere.
I think they inspired it in the 1970’s. After the protest movement and “revolution” of the 1960’s and ‘70’s fizzled out the American Left focused on infiltrating and ultimately dominating the mass media—newspapers, TV, films, publishing—and all other U.S. institutions. Young commies dropped the banners and the firebombs and instead got degrees in journalism, law, education, social work, government, finance, cinematography, etc. Now they run the loudest propaganda machine in history. (”It must be true ‘cause they said it on TV. . .”)
Communism is the open enemy of the U.S. COnstitution.. and ANY rights of any kind..
Its like some kind of political death wish.. to allow communism..
Communism is the avowed enemy of FREEDOM.. always in every instance universally..
Ping!
You make an important point, that the Chicoms no longer enforce economic communism on the cities, suburbs, business, and industry. They are still pretty hard on the rural subjects, but operate what I call "tribute capitalism". The Fascist central control exists, to be sure, but mostly for the collection of tribute for which the commies exchange freedom from regulation (even some that might be beneficial).
Pretty much the Chicoms ARE the evil capitalists that the American wacko left claims to despise and resist.
They’re pretty close to there already. Will we be able to see the difference?
BTW, “free trade” has got us into this mess, as it would allow foreign governments, especially the favored communist chinese, to own media here. No free press for free people anymore.
Knowing China's efficiency, they may actually be LESS biased than our current crop of asshats...
I would rather have a real defined enemy like the chicoms running our papers than the propagandists who masquerade as objective journalists.
If you think I’m kidding, I’m not.
Think about it.
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