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"A host of corporate media outlets including CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and MSNBC have participated in private dinners and sponsored trips with the China-United States Exchange Foundation, a Chinese Communist Party-funded group seeking to garner "favorable coverage" and "disseminate positive messages" regarding China, The National Pulse can reveal.

Other outlets involved in the propaganda operation include Forbes, the Financial Times, Newsweek, Bloomberg, Reuters, ABC News, the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, AFP, TIME magazine, LA Times, The Hill, BBC, and The Atlantic.

The relationship is revealed in the Department of Justice's Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) filings, which reveal a relationship spanning over a decade between establishment media outlets and the China–United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF)…"
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The only surprise for me is the length of the list.

And I take comfort in the absence of several other news outlets which I happen to respect.

Seriously, I believe that if the full depth and breadth of CCP infiltration--and that is the right word--of US Government, Media, Entertainment Industry, Academia, and more would be known, Americans might experience a shocking wake-up call.

TVAG

Yep, but they can't let that happen.

Apparently, we can't even know the names of the mayors whose Chinese lover/spy was banging at the same time she was with him.

It does make you wonder how many similar "agents" are embedded (with extra emphasis on the "bed" part) in our country as well.

Much of, if not most of the high-tech industry has been infiltrated as well.

From what I've heard and read, ALL Chinese citizens are required to spy for their mother country and the communists in charge there, as a civic duty. Repercussions can be quite severe for those not complying, as well as for their family and friends too. See the disappearance of the Chinese Interpol head for a prime example of that. He was kidnapped, taken back to China, and has never been seen or heard from again.

+1. Our open society works when media is not a propaganda arm of one political party. The current media culture is dangerous to freedom and liberty as our founders understood it, and that we have lived with since the Constitution was signed.

pzivh43 – I would partially disagree with your statement. Up until at least the Civil War, my area of study, you knew the slant a story would have before you picked a paper up. It was either a Democrat or Whig, later Republican, supporting newspaper.

I don't know when the myth of the impartial reporter came about, with the consolidation of newspapers under the magnates like William Hirst, or later with the development of radio and tv.

What's dangerous now is that all the major news sources drink from the same trough. Even Fox, the 'conservative' network is using the NY Times style book and slant in its news reporting, while still having mainly conservative programing in it's opinion shows. Getting only one side of the story is a great disservice to the electorate and dangerous to the country.

I agree to a great extent with Dn Jackson.

However, the difficulty--not actual impossibility--of journalism minimizing inherent impartiality is still necessary to a free press.

I believe what we have come to see in this country over the last dozen years in particular has been virtually the entire news industry assuming lockstep with one party, reporting only that which benefits it, and downplaying--when not completely ignoring--anything that would imperil it's virginal appearance.

When you can't slip a plastic card between the Government in power and the reportorial echo chamber of the Main Stream Media (MSM), you have the exact same situation already seen in totalitarian states--Left and Right.

In the US the only possibly new wrinkle is that no government has FORCED the two parties into the same bed. It has been strictly "consensual," and it's only the whole truth that is being deflowered.

TVAG

It has been said the PRC/CCP also owns the NBA and much of the entertainment industry as well.

There's no doubt that the NBA dances to the PRC's tune. Look what happened when someone said something positive about the protesters in Hong Kong. The entire NBA groveled at the feet of the chicoms. 'Socially aware' players who scream bloody murder about something that happened 200 years ago, or accuse police of bias because 9 unarmed black men were shot and killed by police in 2019, have no issue defending the PRC or playing games there. Despite the Chinese government rounding up minorities and putting them in reeducation/forced labor camps.

As for Hollywood…they won't shoot a movie in Georgia because that state limited late term abortions, but they give the chicoms veto power over what they release. Just look at the remake of 'Red Dawn'. The invading power was changed from China to North Korea to appease the CCP.

Pathetic.

"Money Talks… " …

For better or worse, as we see …

Glup!….

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