Hitler had Goebbels, China has the US Legacy Media
Richard Blakley

President Trump gave a wonderfully encouraging speech at a rally celebrating his first 100 days in office, where he spoke of numerous actions his administration has already accomplished.  The speech covered the progress that Trump is making to return common sense, decency, protection, and logical thought to America.

Prior to his rally, President Trump granted an “exclusive” interview with ABC’s Senior National Correspondent, Terry Moran.  Watching the attitude and hearing the questions of Moran made you think of Hitler’s chief propagandist Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda for Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.  The interview made one ask, “For whom is ABC News really working?”  They’re obviously not working to help the American people, nor the president.

Remember in 2019, Yulchiro Kakutani, Washington Free Beacon reporter, posted an article accusing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of “routinely” breaking “federal law by not disclosing how much it spent to publish regime propaganda” through an advertisement section titled China Daily.  China Daily looked like regular news being published in numerous U.S. newspapers like the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal.  A spokesman for the Washington Post stated the newspaper has run China Daily ads for “more than 30 years,” but research shows the CCP didn’t disclose its activities to the Department of Justice until 2012, violating federal law, and continued to fail to provide breakdowns of spending activities, which further violates federal law.

In 2019 Kakutani reported the CCP “has run more than 700 online ads designed to look like news articles and purchased 500 print pages in six American newspapers over the last seven years.”  At the time Rep. Jim Banks, R-IN, (now a senator), charged that American newspapers have “traded credibility for ad revenue… These outlets claim to support democracy, but they’ve participated in a cover-up for an ongoing communist-run genocide.”  The Free Beacon stated, “Democracy died in the darkness, but it pays well.”

Kakutani continued by saying, China Daily is “flush with money… including $11.8 million that the paper’s Beijing office wired to the U.S. branch over the past year [2019].”

A Post spokesperson defended the ads claiming the Post gives “wide latitude” to advertisers if the ads don’t break any laws.

Well, these ads broke federal law.

In 2021 the China Daily reported its activities as required by U.S. law. Financial reports showed the New York Times received $50,000; Foreign Policy magazine received $291,000; The Des Moines Register received $34,600; CQ-Roll Call received $76,000; $700,000 to Time magazine; $371,577 to Financial Times; $272,000 to Los Angeles Times; and over $1 million to others.  China Daily spent $11,002,628 on advertising in U.S. newspapers and $265,822 advertising on Twitter.  The Daily Caller reported CCP-controlled China Daily paid more than $4.6 million to the Washington Post and nearly $6 million to the Wall Street Journal.

From November 2016 to April 2020 payments were made to the Seattle Times, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Chicago Tribune, the Houston Chronicle, the Boston Globe and $657,523 to the Los Angeles Times.

 

 

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