Bigots of the U.S. news media Diary Entry by John
Kusumi |
Musings about the media
:::::::: Particularly in U.S. newsrooms, why are there those who will immediately turn
up their noses, and disconnect from the discourse, when they come upon the words
Falun Gong? Imagine if you will, an editor who is confronted about this. The reply, at
the bottom line, is apparently this: "Well, they may exist, but we'll not run
their news." To any such editor, I don't mind saying -- "You, sir, are a bigot.
Furthermore, this editorial decision reveals a culture of death which is in fact
celebrated by the American news media. It sides with evil, and it reinforces my
observation that U.S. news has been genocidally correct." That is why my book
manuscript is titled, Genocidal Correctness. If published, it will expose the
bigotry of the U.S. news media. Why does it seem apparent -- if we look at news coverage -- that first-class
news comes from Tibetans, and second-class news comes from Falun Gong? Why do
editors reject Beijing's propaganda about Tibetans, but fall in line with
Beijing's calumny and slander for Falun Gong? Why do the American people have a
right to know about a crackdown against Tibetans, but seemingly no right to know
about a crackdown against Falun Gong? Why should news readers in the public be
"kept out of the loop"? The persecution of Falun Gong appears in reports of the U.S. State
Department. If the government knows about it, why keep the public in the
dark? Perhaps I should assert that the U.S. journalism profession is made up of two
types of people: defense contractors (Brian Williams, Tim Russert), and wannabe
defense contractors (those who wish they were Williams or Russert). Our media
have been promulgating one sided "news" for years. The public is highly
suspicious of the media, and rightly so. In my eyes, the U.S. lacks a journalism
profession with integrity and credibility as such. In the case of Falun Gong, the defense contractors who run newsrooms with
calculated bigotry are "leaving the Jews in the gas chambers." When the
Communist Party falls and the "gates of Auschwitz" are opened up, the world will
see what was covered up by Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw, and Dan Rather. The world
will be shocked by the scale of persecution, suffering, and inhuman treatment
that was endured by adherents of Falun Gong. The world will have to (once again) swear, "Never again." Never again. When
those words became famous once before -- after revelation of the Jewish
holocaust in Nazi Germany -- apparently, Jennings, Brokaw, and Rather were
heedless. Really, historians will have to revisit the tenure of Jennings, Brokaw, and
Rather. The historians will have to pass judgments on their legacies. But I feel
that when we again swear "Never again," that it will have a new meaning this
time. We should never again have three men who think they are the bottleneck for
political information; who think they are the ultimate arbiters of what passes
for truth. We should never again leave it up to three men to define our public
discourse in this country. In short, we should never again have the tenure of
Jennings, Brokaw, and Rather. Elsewhere, I have described theirs as an era of Orwellian black propaganda.
Let's not go back to the Jennings-Brokaw-Rather (JBR) years. The journalists who
came after JBR still have not been equal to the task of setting the record
straight. They certainly shold move Falun Gong persecution to the fore.
America's media ought to evolve a back bone, or else I should continue with
articles like this one, to vividly expose the profound depths of genuine evil at
the U.S. news media. Never again. Never again! NEVER AGAIN!!