The Mainstream Media

The following is a true story. In 2005, I was introduced to a gentleman with a historical background in China. His name is Sidney Rittenberg. He is an American who had spent 38 years in China since 1945 with 16 of which under solitary confinement.

​Sidney said that he was invited to a foreign correspondent gathering in Beijing. They invited him because they thought that he would stand on their side in their campaign against China and the CCP. Sidney went and listened to how these foreign 'journalists' talk about their plans to smear China. 

Sidney never blamed anyone for his being caught up in the turbulent currents of the times. On the other hand, he expressed disdain for these so-called foreign journalists. I learned something precious from Sidney that day, that the freedom of the Western Press is really about their freedom to prevaricate, equivocate, and obfuscate. It's hard to imagine that these minions don't know their own bosses are directing and profiting from unending campaigns of torture and terror, while they kill, maim, and starve people all around the world. Sidney even wondered aloud why these people were able to hold this kind of gatherings in Beijing right under the nose of the central government. After this, I would always read Western news reports with a grain of salt. 

On the other hand, people who are biased from a lifetime of consuming bullshit will be happy to believe in any lie as long as it reinforces their prejudice. It's almost impossible to convince morons that they're morons, or hypocrites that they're hypocrites.