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ET: "Deep Dive Into NY Times’s ‘Shameful’ Coverage of Chinese Dissident Group"
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The New York Times was the subject of an
exposé this week. |
The paper’s vested interests in communist
China were scrutinized in an investigation by
The Epoch Times. Meanwhile, The New York
Times’s coverage of Falun Gong, a spiritual
practice brutally persecuted in China, has
been declared “shameful” in a new analysis by
a nonprofit that monitors the repression.
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The New York Times
headquarters in New York on Dec. 7, 2009.
(Mario Tama/Getty Images) |
If that wasn’t enough, The Epoch Times also
learned that the paper is working on a hit
piece on Shen Yun Performing Arts, a
world-class classical Chinese dance company
that aims to present “China Before Communism.”
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The hit piece on Shen Yun, yet to be
published, comes into yet clearer light given
that the arts company was started by Falun
Gong practitioners. |
The New York Times’s record on covering the
Chinese regime has been abysmal to begin with,
according to multiple experts consulted by The
Epoch Times, including Bradley Thayer, a
senior fellow at the Center for Security
Policy and expert on strategic assessment of
China, and James Fannell, former naval
intelligence officer and China expert.
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Aside from infamously covering up the
Soviet-caused famine in the 1930s via Walter
Duranty, the paper once called Mao Zedong a
“democratic agrarian reformer,” and the
nascent Fidel Castro “democratic.” |
Last year, the paper pushed for the failed
policy of “engagement” with China,
demonstrating “ideological obtuseness where
they refuse to see the nature of communist
regimes as they are,” Mr. Thayer said.
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In the Falun Gong case, the paper has
routinely regurgitated Chinese Communist
Party’s (CCP) propaganda, according to a March
21 report by the Falun Dafa Information Center
(FDIC), which analyzed the paper’s coverage on
the issue since 1999, when the regime launched
the persecution. |
“Not only are the victims’ plights typically
treated with silence and indifference, but
even more damaging—when they are
reported—articles are riddled with
misrepresentations, inaccuracies, and outright
hostility, displaying a shocking degree of
unprofessionalism and bias,” the report said.
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The New York Times dismissed the report’s
conclusions as “categorically false,” calling
its coverage on the issue “extensive.”
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But FDIC brought receipts. It found negative
bias and inaccuracies in majority of the
paper’s articles on Falun Gong. Many articles
called the practice common CCP propaganda
terms such as a “sect” or a “cult,” even when
alerted that such labels were unwarranted.
|
As for breadth, from 2009 through 2023, The
New York Times ran more than 200 articles on
the Uyghur ethnic minority in China, more than
300 on Tibetans, and only 17 on Falun Gong.
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That is “far from what might reasonably be
called ‘extensive,’” the FDIC said. |
Larry Liu, an FDIC deputy director, was
appalled to learn the paper’s next target was
Shen Yun, a New York-based arts company which
performs every year for about million
people—to rave reviews. |
The CCP has tried to sabotage Shen Yun for
years, pressing theaters and government
officials to cancel the show under the threat
of endangering relations with China.
|
A New York Times’s expected hit piece on Shen
Yun “will likely be the CCP’s dream come
true,” commented Mr. Liu. |
The New York Times put two reporters on the
story, Nicole Hong and Michael Rothfeld, who
had previously made their names by pursuing
the story around the alleged 2006 affair
between Donald Trump and adult performer
Stephanie Clifford. The reporters have been
working on the hit piece for about half a
year, going after a small group of former Shen
Yun artists who left the company with a
grudge, The Epoch Times learned. |
The reporters have apparently been trying to
cobble together a narrative that Shen Yun
artists don’t receive sufficient health care.
|
The Epoch Times spoke to dozens of Shen Yun
artists, their parents, and other people
familiar with the company, but none of them
mentioned such an issue. |
“It’s absolute rubbish,” said Kay Rubacek,
whose son and daughter both perform with Shen
Yun. |
Ms. Rubacek is a filmmaker whose portfolio
includes award-winning documentaries and the
program “Life & Times” on NTD, a sister
outlet of The Epoch Times. |
Her children started attending Fei Tian
Academy of the Arts, a grade 5–12 private art
school, when they were 13 and 14. The dance
track at the school gives students the
possibility of auditioning for Shen Yun and
continuing their training at the Fei Tian
College on the same campus, which is what her
children did—with great success, she noted.
|
Ms. Rubacek said that before sending her
children to the school, she was very
particular about becoming familiar with the
campus and the teachers. |
“I’m very careful with where I send my kids.
I’m very protective of them,” she said. “So
for me to feel comfortable for them to go to a
boarding school, I have to check everything,
and I checked everything.” |
She was appalled to learn that The New York
Times would try to smear her children as being
part of some opprobrious organization.
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“Everyone who watches the show, sees Shen Yun,
they can see that these dancers love it,” she
said. “They really love what they do.”
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the following original reporting by
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