Commentary
For years, the unspoken truth about Western media is that their veneer of objectivity has come off a long time ago. While touting themselves as the epitome of trustworthiness and honesty, some media practitioners in the West have no qualms about propagating lies against China.
As the coordinated anti-China smear campaign is gaining steam, more intrepid journalists with a conscience are calling it out despite the tremendous pressure to silence them.
In one of the most excoriating rebukes against Western media’s manipulation of public opinion against China, Javier García, head of the office of Spain’s EFE News Agency in Beijing, announced recently that he would soon leave journalism, as the flagrant information manipulation by Western media “has taken a good dose of my enthusiasm for this profession.”
The departure of journalists like García is a giant loss to the industry, which is in dire need of introspection. For those who choose to stay and disagree with the highly biased and distorted reporting on China, they are usually confronted with a monolithic propaganda structure in the West to ignore, silence and discredit them.
The past few years have seen a lot of deplorable cases where anyone who dared to maintain objective and impartial positions on China were accused of being on the payroll of the Chinese government or even worse.
While they are working arduously to suppress impartial information and hoping it to pay off, some media in the West, especially in the United States, should expect that the chickens will come home to roost, as their own political order is at risk.
Even James Murdoch, son of right-wing media mogul Rupert Murdoch who owns FOX News, castigated US media for amplifying disinformation that successfully sowed falsehoods.
“Those outlets that propagate lies to their audience have unleashed insidious and uncontrollable forces that will be with us for years,” he told the Financial Times shortly after the US Congress riot in early January.
For those Western media who are still slandering China’s peaceful development, it is time for them to think twice.
– Courtesy of China Daily
