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2020-03-27 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
New York Times Goes Into Full Chinese Propaganda Mode As U.S. Coronavirus Cases Exceed 80,000
[PJ] According to an analysis from The New York Times, 81,321 Americans have been infected with the coronavirus. This, they say, "is more cases than China, Italy or any other country has seen." Now, I don't think anyone really believes that China's confirmed coronavirus cases simply topped out in the 80,000 range, but the World Health Organization and other groups seem to be accepting their numbers as gospel, anyway.

Just days earlier, the New York Times acknowledged that propaganda from the Chinese government has been "reshaping the coronavirus narrative" (by censoring negative information, hyping up China as the leader in the fight against the virus, and questioning the true origins of the virus) yet this latest article seems to be doing the work of China's propaganda machine, by claiming that despite a "deeply flawed early response to the outbreak" China's "autocratic government acted with ferocious intensity after the belated start." While China was allegedly acting "with ferocious intensity," the United States, they said, "remained preoccupied with business as usual. Impeachment. Harvey Weinstein. Brexit and the Oscars."
Sounds like Tom Freidman has an erection
Ick. No doubt he knows how to resolve that.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-27 06:59|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 New York Times acknowledged that propaganda from the Chinese government has been "reshaping the coronavirus narrative"

They can afford the internal die off, we cannot. Consequently, their die off is not publicized.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-27 07:04||   2020-03-27 07:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Some lies are more believable that others.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-27 07:12||   2020-03-27 07:12|| Front Page Top

#3 I see a scene of Ariel Sharon laughing.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-27 07:52||   2020-03-27 07:52|| Front Page Top

#4 The Peoples Daily Pravda on the Hudson
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-03-27 08:00||   2020-03-27 08:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Walter Duranty gives a rictus smile from Hell.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-27 08:21||   2020-03-27 08:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Seems someone forgot they need to register as a lobbyist for a foreign country. I believe there is a law concerning that.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-03-27 08:46||   2020-03-27 08:46|| Front Page Top

#7 
Posted by DarthVader 2020-03-27 10:38||   2020-03-27 10:38|| Front Page Top

#8 ^LOL
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-27 10:42||   2020-03-27 10:42|| Front Page Top

#9 Great cartoon, Darth. But I don't see CBS on it. IIRC, Nora Roberts made the same claim last night about the US now having more cases than China, taking at face value Chinese numbers which are dubious at best. None of them have the least little bit of credibility.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-03-27 14:17||   2020-03-27 14:17|| Front Page Top










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