China: Paying US Media to Publish Propaganda

[rangerrebew]

China: Paying US Media to Publish Propaganda
'Borrowing a Boat to Go Out on the Ocean'

by Judith Bergman
January 2, 2021 at 5:00 am
 
   Parler

    In June, China Daily filed a disclosure with the Justice Department showing that, since November 2016, it had paid $19 million to U.S. media outlets, including $12 million to newspapers such as the Washington Post and New York Times.

    China Daily's ads -- in a strategy known as "borrowing a boat to go out on the ocean" -- come in the form of advertising supplements, inserts called China Watch... camouflaged to look like the other news content of the media outlets in which they appear.

    The practice does not seem to have caused any sort of actual uproar in those media circles that engage in it... This reticence is odd... but because so many journalists and editors consider themselves as standing up against racism, ethnic and religious discrimination, and human rights abuses. Taking money from the Chinese Communist regime in exchange for spreading its propaganda would seem to indicate that this stance is simply empty posturing.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16865/china-propaganda-us-media

[PeteS in CA]

In less tendentious language, bought ads in the various US media outlets, entirely legal transactions.

[skeeter]

In less tendentious language, bought ads in the various US media outlets, entirely legal transactions.

The supplements were disguised to look like news, which may be legal but is a sketchy practice.

I'd also be interested to know whether the Chicoms paid the going rates for their ads.

[catfish1957]

Chicom's have been become international masters of useful money laundering.  After what they have unleashed on the earth the past year, they should be brought to their knees in punishment.  Instead, in this bizarro world they are getting rewarded.

[XenaLee]

In less tendentious language, bought ads in the various US media outlets, entirely legal transactions.

Parsing of the truth, IOW.   It may be legal, but spreading communist propaganda is treasonous.   Unless, of course, you happen to be on the side of the communists.... which the leftist rags and media are.

[catfish1957]

Parsing of the truth, IOW.   It may be legal, but spreading communist propaganda is treasonous.   Unless, of course, you happen to be on the side of the communists.... which the leftist rags and media are.

Not nickpicking, but we already have 4 or 5 in the House who based on ideloglogy would fry in a McCarthy hearing.  MSM cares not.

[XenaLee]

Not nickpicking, but we already have 4 or 5 in the House who based on ideloglogy would fry in a McCarthy hearing.  MSM cares not.

And most of the idiots in Hollywood (Hollyweird?) would, as well.   McCarthy had the right idea.... he just wasn't cagey enough to pull it off.   Also, it is much more than 4 or 5. 

https://federalobserver.com/2019/10/08/2019-list-of-socialists-and-communists-in-congress/

[catfish1957]

  Also, it is much more than 4 or 5. 

Oh, I agree.  It's just that many who openly admit it.

[dfwgator]

In less tendentious language, bought ads in the various US media outlets, entirely legal transactions.

"The Capitalists will sell us the rope that we will hang them with."

[240B]

McCarthy was absolutely correct!
Everything he did was in the service of America.
He may be rolling over in his grave right now.
But if he is, he is only rolling right side up.
So he can give all of America two boney fingers in their face.

[XenaLee]

McCarthy was absolutely correct!
Everything he did was in the service of America.
He may be rolling over in his grave right now.
But if he is, he is only rolling right side up.
So he can give all of America two boney fingers in their face.

Definitely a justified case of "I told ya!!!".

[skeeter]

Chicom's have been become international masters of useful money laundering.  After what they have unleashed on the earth the past year, they should be brought to their knees in punishment.  Instead, in this bizarro world they are getting rewarded.

My guess is they waaay overpaid for these ads.

[240B]

Definitely a justified case of "I told ya!!!".

Nobody in history did more harm to America than Dick Nixon.
That 'opening relations and economic ties with China' was a tsunami disaster for America.
And the worst is yet to come.

[XenaLee]

My guess is they waaay overpaid for these ads.

My guess is they are fine with that.   Aside from having very deep pockets (thanks to American consumers and to stealing of intellectual property and anything else they can steal from the USA)....they have the reassuring knowledge that the entire American media has been compromised.

[PeteS in CA]

...   It may be legal, but spreading communist propaganda is treasonous.   ...

If it's treason it's not legal; if it's legal it's not treason.

[skeeter]

Nobody in history did more harm to America than Dick Nixon.
That 'opening relations and economic ties with China' was a tsunami disaster for America.
And the worst is yet to come.

it was a good policy in theory. Until the ‘free market uber alles’ types stepped in and totally twisted things to their benefit and the country’s detriment.

It just needed to be accompanied by an America First attitude and a liberal dose of anti corruption legislation backed by some really sharp teeth.

Btw did you know Henry Kissinger is still making bank in China?

[skeeter]

My guess is they are fine with that.   Aside from having very deep pockets (thanks to American consumers and to stealing of intellectual property and anything else they can steal from the USA)....they have the reassuring knowledge that the entire American media has been compromised.

Of course they are fine with it. They’ve done the same with our universities, media, dozens of small African, Asian, etc nations... they’ve bought their fealty with good ol payola.

[XenaLee]

If it's treason it's not legal; if it's legal it's not treason.

Not necessarily.   In case you haven't noticed....  Congress and the courts have been taken over and over-run by radical leftists for some time now.   Treasonous radical leftists.  You know.... the kind that make laws that are treasonous but are sanctioned by them and are carried out against the will of the majority of Americans.   Strictly speaking, there are a lot of things that have been done "legally" against the USA that constitute high treason.   It just hasn't been punished.   Yet.

Nice parse attempt, though.

[240B]

Not necessarily.   In case you haven't noticed....  Congress and the courts have been taken over and over-run by radical leftists for some time now.   Treasonous radical leftists.  You know.... the kind that make laws that are treasonous but are sanctioned by them and are carried out against the will of the majority of Americans.   Strictly speaking, there are a lot of things that have been done "legally" against the USA that constitute high treason.   It just hasn't been punished.   Yet.

Nice parse attempt, though.

Radical Leftist Judges...make their own 'law' from their bench.
Because they know there is no sanction. They know very well they can do whatever the hell they want to do.
And nothing will ever happen from it.
They are like the bishops in the 1600s. The Bible is what I say it is.
Do you dare challenge me?

Only today, you are no longer burned at the stake.
Now, you are burned at Twitter/Facebook/Google.
It is the same thing, only you don't die.

[XenaLee]

Radical Leftist Judges...make their own 'law' from their bench.
Because they know there is no sanction. They know very well they can do whatever the hell they want to do.
And nothing will ever happen from it.
They are like the bishops in the 1600s. The Bible is what I say it is.
Do you dare challenge me?

Only today, you are no longer burned at the stake.
Now, you are burned at Twitter/Facebook/Google.
It is the same thing, only you don't die.

Exactly.