https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKWDy2g-Tvs
Hi Bernie
The stories in the Epoch Times video are interesting. The question is of their truthiness. The newspaper is apparently a Falun Gong organization for which I have sympathy however how can we extract fake news from propaganda? Oops, it's all propaganda with a twist.
Do you think Xi Jinping can be overthrown?
The publishers are Trump supporters and he knows fake news when he sees it on TV. ha ha.
Thanks for sending it.
John
Firstly, your reply surprised me in that the quotation sent to you was just a cut-n-paste of one sentence from an article of Epoch Times. It was not an http link … at least it wasn’t intended to be. The intention being that if interested, I would copy the whole article to you. I guess that the unnoticed underlining of the sentence should have been a ‘giveaway’. Sorry.
I take your point about truth and fake news, and a Falun Gong bias and, therefore, the extent of my reply would be better published here.
ReplyDeleteObviously, The Epoch Times, as a member of the media has a bias. The difference being that it is less biassed than, e.g., China Daily, The New York Times, The Guardian, et al., and it attempts to equally expose extraordinary policies of both Right and Left parties globally … without fake news rants.
Equally, it is funded (in part) by Falun Gong and, thus, is appreciated by the U.S. government’s aggressive stance towards the CCP.
Alert: I became aware of Falun Gong whilst working in the PRC. But I learned very little until returning to Canada, where I joined a local group purely out of curiosity. I left after a long period of interesting, but unsuccessful indoctrination … and have not thought of continuing … even though making a number of wonderful (short-term) friends. I am convinced of the truthfulness of the organ harvesting, forced abortions, gene-washing, etc., stories.
To your questions; Yes, the definition of the word ‘propaganda’ is being “biassed and misleading”. But in the PRC it is simply defined as “information” (even though biassed and misleading) hence its success.
Unfortunately, I do not see Xi Jinping being overthrown due to the common psychobiology of the Chinese people and the massive brainwashing of the PLA. It would help if we did not input Chinese products … probably.
If we did not import Chinese products ....
DeleteGod, whatever next will come from China? Xi must think a population of zombies is the ideal citizen.
DeleteDo you know of Ayn Rand , who wrote about how terrible such an idea is? In 'Atlas Shrugged' she wrote about this horror and to what it will lead.
S in our umpteenth cold front. Small flowers are popping out on lawns but the trees as more astute and not popping new leaves yet. They probably are now mentally unbalanced because of the bizarre weather patterns.
Steph.
Tyrant Xi seems to be taking cues from Hitler and Stalin. Hitler’s tall, blond, ideal Germanics, and Stalin’s forced emigration of Russians into the satellite countries, e.g., Ukraine.
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