Here at Bloomers, we also curb any articles that might anger the Democrat Party, the White House, Nasty Pelosi, Dirty Harry, the Royal Idiot, the Wookie, any of the too big to fail banks, Helicopter Ben, or Goldman Sachs.
Posted on 11/09/2013 3:45:58 PM PST by Hojczyk
The investigative report they had been working on for the better part of a year, which detailed the hidden financial ties between one of the wealthiest men in China and the families of top Chinese leaders, would not be published.
In the call late last month, Mr. Winkler defended his decision, comparing it to the self-censorship by foreign news bureaus trying to preserve their ability to report inside Nazi-era Germany, according to Bloomberg employees familiar with the discussion.
Other news organizations have come under similar pressure. The websites of The New York Times, including a new Chinese-language edition, were blocked when it published an article in October 2012 on the family wealth of Wen Jiabao, then the prime minister. Like Bloomberg, The Times has also not received residency visas for new journalists.
In recent years, some editors at Bloomberg have encouraged reporters to tackle ambitious investigative reports, in order to broaden the company beyond its foundation as a speed-driven financial news service. At times, that aggressiveness has resulted in ethical breaches, as when Bloomberg was forced to disclose in May that its journalists had gained access to the log-in data of terminal customers to gain an edge in reporting.
Bloomberg News infuriated the government in 2012 by publishing a series of articles on the personal wealth of the families of Chinese leaders, including the new Communist Party chief, Xi Jinping. Bloomberg’s operations in China have suffered since, as new journalists have been denied residency and sales of its financial terminals to state enterprises have slowed. Chinese officials have said repeatedly that news coverage on the wealth and personal lives of Chinese leaders crosses a red line.
The perception among some Bloomberg employees that the company is now unwilling to cross such lines has left them unsettled.
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all media does the same as well as not angering Obama
Poland, Czechoslovakia and other nations that felt threatened by Nazi Germany forbad their press from publishing articles that might offend Germany.
The US Department of State has also directed media sources to not badmouth certain country’s leaders at times, including Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Chinese Xi Jinping, and even Iran’s Ahmadajiniad.
Bloomberg has bid investments in China, they don’t want to lose by criticizing the leadership.
This bolsters my belief that when TSHF, the bed-wetting leftist American propaganda press can be shut down by simple threats.
Here at Bloomers, we also curb any articles that might anger the Democrat Party, the White House, Nasty Pelosi, Dirty Harry, the Royal Idiot, the Wookie, any of the too big to fail banks, Helicopter Ben, or Goldman Sachs.
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remember that ingrown pube i was tellin you about
The one you showed me, or the other one?
this one the other one was when i sed this really boils my a$$
Oh that one.
Kissing up.
CNN was noted for doing this too in the past (probably continues with all news outlets)
CNN admitted that it self-censored bad news about Iraq before the war to maintain the safety of reporters who lived there.
I always wondered why CNN would keep reporters in a country that they couldn’t accurately report on.
The situation here is similar. Remember that CNN and Bloomberg are first and foremost businesses that need video now. That means they need mobility. Whether the video and the accompanying story tells the entire truth of the matter is optional. If the objective truth cannot be told for some political reason, any good narrative will do.
Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins also directed US media sources to heap praise upon Stalin for his great contributions to humanity and his courageous defense of the glorious USSR, and to withhold any criticisms of Uncle Joe.
The US Government has a long history of engaging in deceptive propaganda itself.
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