The party media made a fool of itself again and got caught in the act for lying!
Here’s what happened: On May 22, the day Yuan Longping died, Xinhua released an article in English titled “China Focus: “Father of hybrid rice” Yuan Longping dies at 91″ (China Focus: “Father of hybrid rice I have seen heartbreaking scenes of starving people falling on the road before 1949,’ Yuan said in an article titled “China Focus: ‘Father of hybrid rice’ Yuan Longping dies at 91,” recalling a time when even getting enough to eat was a serious problem in China. This was the main reason that led me to hybrid rice research,'” Yuan said, recalling a time when even getting enough to eat was a serious problem in China.”
However, some netizens found a very different statement in an article, also on Xinhua, posted on May 22, 2007. The article, entitled “Great Work to Yuan Longping: I am a people’s scientist”, states that Yuan Longping saw starvation in Hunan during the Great Leap Forward and “chose the scientific research topic of hybrid rice without rebellion.
So when did Yuan Longping see the starving people? As far as I know, Yuan Longping told the media more than once that he saw starving people on the road during the Great Leap Forward.
For example, on April 8, 2009, the Guangzhou Daily published an interview with Yuan Longping entitled “Yuan Longping: It’s Difficult to Keep the Red Line of 1.8 Billion Mu of Arable Land”. In the interview, Yuan said, “You are young and don’t know that during the three years of hardship, tens of millions of people died of starvation. The Great Leap Forward cut down all the trees to make steel and destroyed the ecology, and in 1959, there was a big drought and basically no harvest for one year. I saw five starving people on the road.”
In 2013, Yuan Longping also said in an interview with People magazine, “At that time, during the three years of hardship, we in Hunan were called ‘living a hard life’, and it was really hard. I saw with my own eyes five starving people, falling on the ridge of the field, next to the road and under the bridge, starving to death tens of millions of people.” This interview, was published in the August 2013 issue of People magazine.
In other words, not only did the 2007 Xinhua article report that Yuan saw starving people on the road during the Great Leap Forward, but he also said the same thing in two interviews with the media in 2009 and 2013. Imagine if this was before 1949, could he not have mentioned it in the interview? Absolutely not!
But when it came to the Xinhua article on May 22, the day Yuan died, the time he saw starvation suddenly changed to before 1949. Such a blatant tampering is too clumsy, right?
It’s no coincidence. The same blatant falsification occurred in CCTV’s coverage of the Marathon deaths.
Shepherd Zhu Keming moved many netizens because he saved six runners in a row when the incident occurred. What’s even more remarkable is that a comment he made in the interview provided an important clue to restore the truth. In the @swirl video interview, Zhu Keming’s original words were: “This kind of weather is frequent” “There are often such (severe extreme weather) situations ah”. But in the CCTV report on the matter, netizens found that Zhu Keming’s words became “that kind of weather is really very rare, rare”, the meaning is completely reversed!
Why did Xinhua and CCTV blatantly falsify the time when Yuan saw the starving corpse and the local weather conditions at the time of the marathon death? It is clear that the former is to cover up the fact that there was a famine in China during the Great Leap Forward, and the latter is to cover up the real cause of the Marathon deaths. In short, it is all about covering up for the Chinese Communist Party.
The Chinese Communist Party started by lying, and seized and maintained power by lying. The party media, as the “mouthpiece” of the CCP, has naturally become a lying tool in the guise of media. This blatant falsification of facts by Xinhua and CCTV is just a new page in the history of lying by the party media, but it will never be the last one.
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