CNN.com published Wednesday an opinion-piece on the brutal persecution of Muslim Uyghurs in China by their communist government. That’s good, right? Keep reading. The liberal media outlet also offered a pathetic “editors note” full of commie propaganda watering down the “allegations of crimes” against China. CNN removed the note and replaced it by a gentler one.
CNN published an article by Nury Turkel (a Hudson Institute Fellow) about his experience with Chinese repression. It was titled, “I was born in a Chinese ‘reeducation camp.’ I’m watching history repeat itself.”
But here’s the galling “editor’s note” that the journalists at CNN attached:
See, CNN sees brutal China as just offering “training centers”? CNN.com changed the title to this after being clearly embarrassed.
Editor’s note: Nury Turkel is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute, vice chair at the US Commission on International Religious Freedom and fellow of the Renew Democracy Initiative’s Frontlines of Freedom project. These views are solely his. CNN offers more information.
Here’s some of Turkel’s column that CNN tried to water down:
China has reacted to the Uyghur population’s plight half a century ago with renewed fervor. The US Department of Defense reports that China may have held up to 3 million Uyghurs captive in its detention camps. CNN has reported that China is destroying Uyghur cemeteries based upon satellite imagery. It is even rumored to be implementing an extensive force sterilization program, as per several Uyghur women.
I have lived with the realities of this regime. Now, as I watch with horror at their cruelty, it is difficult for me understand why any Western actor would want to engage with such a dictatorship.
Here’s Senator Ted Cruz’s take on it:
Sadly, corporate whoring for China, at the expense of human lives, is not new for liberal outlets. In September of 2020, ABC’s Good Morning AmericaThe movie was repeatedly moved MulanDisney corporate parent owns the movie. ABC decided to censor the news that the movie was being filmed in close proximity to brutal Chinese concentration camps.
Since years The Washington PostPublished a paid supplement section entitled ChinaWatch by the publicity department of the country’s repressive regime, China Daily. The paper kept publishing it even after the country’s brutal crackdown on Hong Kong.
The October 30, 2019 supplement to the print Washington PostIt featured a communist-made story. It began, “China in its New Era has an increasingly significant role on the world stage as it marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic.” A quote by China’s president, XI Jingping, followed, praising mass killer Mao Zedong:
Seventy years ago on this day, Comrade Mao Zedong solemnly declared here to the world that the People’s Republic of China was founded and the Chinese people had stood up.
Liberal media outlets can be skeptical of any Republican-related content. They believe what they hear about brutal communists.
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