NYT Trumpets Retiring Chinese Propagandist Who Ran ‘China’s Version of Fox News’

The New York Times On Thursday, willful suffering was what can only be called its “austere religious scholar” Moment (as an appelback to The Washington Post’s ObituaryAbu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of ISIS) The retirement of your dreamsThe editor-in chief of the Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece, the Global Times trumpeted Hu Xijin having helmed the following: “some have called China’s version of Fox News.”

Reporters John Liu and Paul Mozur penned the piece as if it were Xijin’s obituary, titling it “China’s Loudest Nationalist Steps Back”The subhead calls him A. “pioneer of the country’s fiery online posturing[.]”

It’s not surprising, considering the simple fact The TimesIt has Given money by the Chinese Communist PartyTheir lede graph, which was also offensive for the mouthpiece in a paper advocating genocide, was similar.

Hu Xijin is the leader for many years of Global Times, the nationalistic Communist Party tabloid, and a pioneer of China’s fiery online posturing, said on Thursday that he would step back from his position.

Gushing, he was “[a] standout in China’s growing chorus of nationalist voices,” Liu and Mozur said he “led the paper, which some have called China’s version of Fox News, for more than a decade” during which “it became one of the country’s best-known, and most truculent, media organizations.”

They also included Xijin “set the tone for a new generation of Chinese pundits and diplomats who have taken to global social media to lash out at the country’s critics and rivals,” At the “forefront of a group determined to show the world that China will not back down.”

It was only paragraph 5 that started. The Times even often gentle condemnations of China’s ongoing genocide of Uighurs and other human rights atrocities (click “expand”):

He was among the first to respond to the international criticism about China’s vast detention of Muslims, arguing that while minorities were being held against their will, the re-education camps were a sincere attempt to educate and train them. When tensions with Australia soured last year, he likened the country to gum stuck to the bottom of China’s shoe.

He was also a prominent voice in Chinese media trying to discredit global concerns about Peng Shuai’s safety and freedom after Peng Shuai accused an ex-top leader of sexual assault. Videos were released showing him eating in Beijing.

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Some have criticized Mr. Hu for his insolent language. Within China, his critics sometimes called him a “Frisbee fetcher,” a party loyalist who jumps at the prompting of officials and bends the truth to inflame passions within China.

During the presidential administration of Donald J. Trump, Mr. Hu would often work late, firing off rejoinders at the U.S. president’s tweets. Other Chinese diplomats and state media journalists followed, taking to American social media platforms blocked in China to hit back at Beijing’s critics.

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Takeover Global Times He thrived in 2005, even though China repeatedly cracked down upon media freedoms and jailed journalists. He has occasionally criticised the government, but he is often accompanied by patriotic tweets, many of which are reposted on Chinese social networks, to demonstrate that he is defending China internationally.

Between two graphs that show his mocking of Indians who succumbed to the coronavirus in an early 2021 epidemic, is a second graph. The Times continued to offer a positive review (click “expand”):

That conduct helped him retain his status as a trusted party stalwart and conduit for the outlook of Beijing’s buttoned-up top leadership. Investors, diplomats and political pundits in China and the United States alike often scoured his posts for hints of what Chinese leaders might be thinking, though opinions vary over how much the tabloid’s bellicose editorials represented Beijing’s attitudes.

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On Chinese social media, many lauded Mr. Hu for his years of social media combat, calling it a loss to the country’s propaganda efforts and expressing wishes he will continue to speak out. Many praised him for his contributions to better understanding China.

One popular Weibo commentator, known as Chairman Tu, wrote that Mr. Hu’s departure marked the end of an era: “Thanks to Old Hu for his contribution. In the new era, China still needs more voices.”

In contrast, here’s what The TimesDid when some famous Republicans and conservatives died in the past six years.

The late and great Rush Limbaugh PastScott Whitlock, NotedThis The Times wrote in its headline that he “turned talk radio into a right-wing attack machine.” 

They stated that Limbaugh was a leade. “slashing, divisive style of mockery and grievance” This “reshaped American conservatism, denigrating Democrats, environmentalists, ‘feminazis’ (his term) and other liberals[.]”

George H.W. Bush, former President Bush received a delicious lead-in dinner The Times Knocked him as having been “denied a second term after support for his presidency collapsed under the weight of an economic downturn and his seeming inattention to domestic affairs.”

Conservative economist Walter Williams? The Times fretted that he had “profoundly skeptical views of government efforts to aid his fellow African-Americans and other minority groups.”

Donald Rumsfeld considers them Knocked him as “a combative infighter who seemed to relish conflicts as he challenged cabinet rivals, members of Congress and military orthodoxies.”

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