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Sana Saeed: Mainstream Media Dishonesty  (30/1/2022)

21/5/2022

 
This is a long post with a lot of material to back up Sana's claim in her video. If you're one of those people who have always wondered about why the world is as it is and want to understand the reality we live in but can't distinguish the lies from the truth, spend a bit of time to learn the answer at the very end. Hopefully, you will find it worth your while, and you will pass this to your family and friends. 

Sana Saeed is a host and senior producer at AJ+, the digital news service distributed over social media and owned by Al Jazeera, which, in turn, is owned by Qatar. It's always advisable to know the source of your information. I normally do not pay much attention to Al Jazeera, as they tend to repeat the Western mainstream narratives. I'm, therefore, intrigued when I came upon Sana's AJ+ YouTube post titled "How the Threat of China was Made in the USA" 
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​Here is my comment:

I am from Hong Kong and have become a Canadian like Sana. I worked in the mainstream media in the early days of my career and actually built a national Chinese language television station in Canada. It was a long time ago. When Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1997, I returned to my hometown to watch that historical event. I ended up getting a job in China and lived in the country for almost two decades. I have witnessed China's rise and I can share one of my experiences in a few words. I was utterly shocked by the complete disregard for factual reporting of China by Western journalists. I am almost ashamed to say I started my television career in Canada working as a director for a news crew on the streets of Toronto. These so-called Western "journalists" wilfully dissemble and obfuscate in their reports about China, and they twist everything about China with a negative narrative. It is their job to be dishonest about China and they're happy to make a living doing it.*

China is by no means a perfect society, and no one should lie about it, but why should we expect any human society to be perfect? Given China is a huge country with a long and continuous civilization, trying to feed a large and complex population with scant resources, and which is in the process of recovering from a hundred years of incessant wars and colonial plunder, its government has at least helped its people improve their lives from extreme poverty and with a very disadvantaged hand. What has our government done for us lately, except crushing the people under a mountain of debt to send the people's sons and daughters into endless wars, committing atrocities in our name and buying propaganda from the mainstream media so we can all blame China, meanwhile all the money flows into the coffers of the 1%?

Sana's well-researched mini-documentary unequivocally reveals the role taken on by Western mainstream journalists and their media bosses as spreaders of misinformation and false narratives in almost all their reports about China. Unfortunately, lies and fabrications will not overcome truth and facts. Not only will the mainstream media destroy our trust in them, they will destroy themselves as well as our society. This is what happens when our society no longer has trust. One of the symptoms of our sickness is how we now have lying presidents and lying prime ministers and lying lawmakers, and how it is now normal for them to lie. The problem is not they're lying, but they're lying poorly. I have recently written a short post titled "The Blame China Song
." Feel free to read for a laugh.


My comment received 600 upvotes on YouTube
The following is a sample of comments on my comment.

Alex Tang
Mr. Man, well said, glad that you speaking out ! did watch your "FairChild TV" during my university days...Alex from Toronto.

Xi Xu
Thank you for telling the truth !

Ken Aidiun
Thanks Sir (three thumbs up)


Amelia H
I never thought of a rap based on such a topic ! !

Xel Kim

Peter, do share more, its hard to find a anyone from Hong Kong with that unique experience. Keep safe.

Xi Chen
Thanks for your work

Truth
I've read your rap. A great one. I forwarded to a video as a quoted comment with your name. If you don't like it please let me (know) then I can delete it there. Thanks.

Diana Xu
Bravo, well said!! Would like to hear more from you.


* It turns out I am not the only person besides Sana to arrive at such a conclusion. We are many in the world. The following links are a small sample of YouTube videos made by people from the West who have lived in China and have discovered this strange anomaly in mainstream news reporting. In addition, I include a few videos by mainstream journalists who have decided to tell the truth. 

Cyrus Janssen: The Real Reason Western Media Lies About China 

Cyrus has a good heart and wants peace between the U.S. and China. I do not, however, agree with his conclusion the real reason is jealousy. His experience of not seeing a single positive report on China from the West in thirteen years is not an anomaly. I lived in China for twenty years and I saw none. In fact, I started observing this phenomenon since I visited China in the early '80s. Jealousy alone could not have done that. (Click Below)
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Daniel Dumbrill: The Media's Public Manipulation Exposed From The Inside  
Fellow Canadian, Daniel Dumbrill, owner/operator of a microbrewery in Shenzhen is one of the best vloggers on the subject. He is thorough, he is meticulous, he is knowledgeable, he is well researched, he is balanced, and he shows you raw material that demonstrates a salient point, that wage-earning journalists and profit-oriented media bosses cannot afford to report the truth. (Click Below)
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Since Daniel is awesome, I will add another of his video. If you watch through to the bitter end, you will realize our warped reality has been shaped by the free press. But do we want to take the red pill? 

Daniel Dumbrill: Mainstream Media Dishonesty 
Quoting Daniel at the beginning of the video, "... these people know exactly what they're doing. It isn't a matter of journalists being poor at the job. It's very much deliberate ... You can look at it as a masterclass of the state of modern journalism and how it's infested with bad actors, propagandists, and malicious state-sponsored narratives. And, you know what, actually a mass exposé ..." Watch the video to the end and decide for yourself. (Click Below)
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If you have an hour to spare, you may watch Daniel interview Nury Vittachi, a British mainstream journalist in Hong Kong who was extremely anti-China in his early years of news reporting. Vittachi doesn't work for mainstream anymore, which is good news.

Lee Barrett: Western Media Lies About China 

Lee and his son Oli are just ordinary folks from England who have been living in China and who make vlogs about their life in China. They're not experts on the subject of politics or the media. They do notice the dishonest reporting from the West. After all, Western mainstream media attacked them. Here is Lee the father talking earnestly about his experience and feelings about Western media reporting. (Click Below)
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Jason Lightfoot: British News Exposed my Funding 
Jason is an ordinary Brit living in China. He is a humorous guy and his vlogs about his everyday life in a fifth tier city of one of the poorest provinces in China (Guizhou) is highly popular both in China and on YouTube. His lovely newborn son, Lincoln, is also a social media star. Out of nowhere, he discovers he is the target of attack by Western mainstream media for merely showing his life in China on his channels. Watch Jason laugh it off. (Click Below)
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Raz Gao-Or: The New York Times Article About Me 
Raz is 
a Jewish guy from Israel who grew up in Hong Kong and Beijing. His father manages an equity fund from Israel specializing in investments in China. Raz's highly popular channel, Y-China, talks about China, the Chinese people and foreigners in China. He is basically a fun guy and is not interested in a lot of political mumble jumble. Unfortunately, he did travel to Xinjiang to discover for himself and his channel's followers the real Xinjiang. How dare he offend the New York Times by showing the truth. NYT promptly attacked Raz in a hit piece on China. Surprisingly, many readers defended Raz in their comments. (Click Below)
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Numuves: A Chinese Canadian who lives in China and makes vlogs about China shares a compilation of speeches by retired colonel, Richard Black, a former Republican member of the Virginia State Senate and an American patriot who killed and risked to be killed as an American soldier in many wars on behalf of Americans. Here Col. Black decides to tell the shocking truth that is almost diametrically opposite to what we have learned from the mainstream media. (Click Below)
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Numuves: The Chinese Canadian vlogger also shares with us a speech by Udo Ulfkotte, a German mainstream journalist who turned rogue after working for top-ranked German newspapers for twenty-five years. For those of us who have not worked in the news reporting business, listen carefully to the whistleblower. I have worked in the mainstream media and had, in fact, built and ran a TV station; therefore, I was privy to a few things.

Udo Ulfkotte was fed up with disseminating lies for the newspapers. He told the world he and his colleagues had been lying in their news reports all the time and from day one. He didn't beat around the bush. He named names, and no one ever sued him. They couldn't if he was telling the truth. (Click Below)
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Udo Ulfkotte: In the following 2014 clip, Udo explained he was worried Europe was being pushed into war. We learn too late, in 2022, his worries were not unfounded. While for twenty-five years, Udo's mainstream lies were treated as the gospel truth, the moment he started telling the truth, he was branded as a right-wing extremist and a crazy conspiracy theorist. Now, he may hold views we don't completely agree with, which is normal. But listen to the man's words. Read his interviews. Make your own judgment. Was he was making things up? Udo expected telling the truth would bring him a world of troubles. At least, he did not have to suffer long. He died two years and three months after the airing of the video in January of 2017 at the young age of 56. In Udo's own words, "I've been a journalist for twenty-five years, and I was educated to lie, to betray and not to tell the truth to the public" and "Germany is still a kind of a colony of the United States." Truth is sometimes rather refreshing.** (Click Below)
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** I have always maintained Germany is not a fully sovereign nation, and have offended some people. But people refuse to acknowledge Germany is still occupied country. China once had foreign soldiers and gunboats in the country. The Chinese people know by experience what it means.

Yonden Lhatoo:   The insufferable hypocrisy of Western governments 
Finally, an indignant mainstream journalist, Yonden Lhatoo, Chief News Editor of South China Morning Post, lashes out at hypocrites who like to lecture others on the freedom of the press. Yonden quoted Chris Hedges in his video. Chris used to work for the New York Times as their Middle East and Balkans Bureau Chief. He resigned in 2005 after being reprimanded for telling the truth. Do we have hope?
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What then is the real reason for this widespread and deliberate mainstream media dishonesty? Maybe Upton Sinclair hinted of it when he said this about journalists, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." They can't afford to tell the truth and we can't afford to learn the truth. We're all subjects of the mighty Hege-money. At least, we have now identified the falsifiers. Let us be wary of their mendacity. 

Caveat: links to Wikipedia are for casual reference only. One should be aware that Wikipedia articles are not always accurate or without bias. Readers who are interested in the subject should conduct more in-depth research.
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