Investigative reports show that major U.S. media outlets have close business ties to the Communist Party.
On December 10, President Donald Trump’s oldest son, Donald Trump Jr, tweeted that media outlets had been paid by the Chinese Communist Party to cover up the scandal over the infiltration of California Rep. Eric Swalwell by female Chinese Communist party spies. CNN reported the incident, but it took only three minutes and 16 seconds. MSNBC, ABC, NBC, AND CBS did not report it at all. And are American media really infiltrated by the Communist Party? In May, an investigation by the Federalist, an online conservative magazine, summarized the media’s business relationship with the Communist Party.
“You often see representatives of American companies with economic ties to China automatically become defenders of the party’s policies and propagandists,” said Helen Raleigh, an immigrant writer and senior writer for the Federalists.
Before “the federalists” reporter Chris Clark (Chrissy Clark) detailed in the report, the New York Times (New York Times), the Washington Post (Washington Post), cable news network (CNN) and NBC, MSNBC, American broadcasting company (ABC), Bloomberg (Bloomberg) the major American media commercial relations with the communist party of China.
The New York Times
In 2009, the Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim borrowed $250 million from the New York Times Company, which owns the New York Times. That same year, Slim bought 15.9 million Class A shares. Owns 17.4% of the New York Times through the company’s Class A shares. As the largest shareholder, his investments gave him about a third of the voting rights on the company’s board.
Slim often does business with Chinese companies. In 2017, Slim’s Giant Motors, in a joint venture with China’s JAC Motors, began producing cars in Mexico for sale in Latin America. According to Forbes, the sales to Latin America are intended to circumvent the Trump administration’s trade policies aimed at protecting U.S. jobs.
Slim’s Company, America Movil, is working with Communist Party telecom giant Huawei to pitch a 5G pilot program to the Colombian government this year, Bloomberg Law reported. Huawei is actively working to undermine U.S. security interests by overturning U.S. legislation that bans the use of Huawei’s 5G networks.
Mr Slim may not attend The Times’s newsroom meetings, but all the paper’s leaders surely know who pays them.
The Washington Post
In 2013, Billionaire Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post for $250 million in cash.
Mr Bezos has direct links to the business market in China, where almost all of Amazon’s most popular products, including its Echo and Kindle e-readers, are made. Bezos, who has also been trying to expand Amazon’s presence in China, said: “Amazon is ready to serve [China].”
After years of doing business in China, Bezos’s China connection was already evident in the Washington Post’s “Ads” section.
The Washington Post subscription comes with an AD supplement called ‘China Watch.’ According to Mark Hemingway of the Federalist, the China Watch supplement was provided by China Daily. The Washington Post openly accepted the Communist Party’s advertising fees and distributed Chinese propaganda.
CNN
CNN is owned and operated by Warner Media, which has important financial and institutional ties to the Communist Party. In June 2013, Warner Media announced a $50 million partnership with a Chinese investment fund. The money will be invested directly in China Media Capital, a Media company overseen by the Communist Party, which means it is subject to censorship and other requirements when pushing Chinese propaganda.
According to Helen Rowley, when U.S. companies partner with organizations such as CMC, they can be influenced by China’s use of its laws to advance its global goals, including its Cyber Security Act. This includes forcing technology transfer and subjecting companies and data to random searches by the Communist Party. Companies have also been forced to build data centres in China, where the Communist Party can observe the data directly. All of these pose national security risks for the United States.
Jeff Zucker, the global president of CNN, also has ties to China. At Turner Sports, Zach oversees program acquisitions, production, marketing, league relations and Sports AD sales, CNN reported. Turner Sports’ direct partnership with the NBA to broadcast the games in China means That Mr. Zach has ample business in China, where it is inevitable that American businessmen will please the Communist Party in order to make money.
In a segment on Fox News’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” CNN sang China’s praises over the coronavirus pandemic. In the clip, the CNN anchor praises China for sending ventilators and masks to Europe, while accusing the Trump administration of allegedly failing to lead the epidemic and ignoring the fact that China had allowed it to spread around the world.
CNN even praised the Communist Party’s “mode of control”. CNN, wrote Federalist Kylee Zempel, was “parroting the Chinese [Communist] media’s full control of the virus while downplaying the Chinese Communist Party’s role in spreading the coronavirus to the rest of the world.”
MSNBC and NBC
MSNBC and NBC News are both run by NBC Universal, which has extensive economic ties to the Communist Party. In November 2010, NBC and Xinhua signed an agreement to establish cooperation in international broadcast news business.
The US State Department has designated Xinhua and five other Chinese state media outlets as “foreign missions”. They are considered direct business of the Communist Party and do not function as independent news organizations.
In 2015, NBC Universal agreed to license iQIYI, a Nasdaq-listed video network platform from Chinese technology company Baidu, to advertise in New York’s Times Square because of NBC.
Finally, according to the Hollywood Reporter on February 1, 2018, a Beijing-based investment group called CMC Capital Partners acquired full ownership of NBC Universal’s Oriental DreamWorks, a unit of NBC Universal.
The American broadcasting Company ABC
ABC’s most visible business ties to China are through their joint ventures with Walt Disney and ESPN. Both companies have deep financial interests in China’s communist party-controlled economy.
In November 2009, the Communist Government approved plans to create a Disney World theme park in Shanghai. The project cost about $3.6 trillion and was financed by several of China’s largest state-owned enterprises. After construction, Disney will retain only 43 percent of the property, while the Communist Party-controlled Shanghai Shendi Group will take the remaining 57 percent.
ESPN, another ABC entity, was caught bidding for the Communist government in October 2019. While the NBA refuses to condemn the Chinese Communist Party for its economic interests, ESPN supports the NBA to ensure its fiscal 2019 revenue. At the time, ESPN’s senior news director reportedly instructed employees to avoid discussing Chinese politics if asked about them or Daryl Morey’s pro-Hong Kong twitter feed.
Helen Rowley said U.S. companies are building these financial relationships with Chinese companies to gain access to China’s massive consumer market of 1.4 billion people. ABC affiliates such as ESPN and ABC News need to reassure the CCP that their programs, whether through positive news coverage or compliance with the cybersecurity law, need to get their programs on Chinese screens in order to make money in the Chinese market.
According to Emily Jashinsky, a Federalist magazine, ABC’s cozy relationship with the Communist Party also translates into an image of the party at the American box office. Disney’s relatively new film Mulan is a case in point. To maintain access to the lucrative Chinese market, US studios such as Disney censor productions before or after production to appease the Communist party.
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas has proposed legislation to cut off defense Department aid to any American film company that allows the Chinese Communist Party to censor its content. The legislation is called Stopping Censorship, Restoring Integrity, Protecting Talkies.
Hollywood films often work with the Pentagon and The Department of Defense, using American assets as props, such as jets, tanks and naval bases. Cruz’s SCRIPT legislation only allows the Defense Department to sign contracts with companies that don’t allow the Communist Party to review their content.
These organizations also work directly with ABC News abroad. According to SENIOR ABC correspondent David Wright, ABC has a lot of ties to its affiliates. In a Project Veritas report, Wright admitted that ABC was a profit centre rather than a beacon of real news.
“[ABC] became a profit center, a publicity center,” Wright says. Like right now, you can’t watch ‘Good Morning America’ without seeing a Disney princess or a Marvel Avenger. It’s all about the company’s self-promotion.”
ABC bowed to the Communist Party in return for more money, but at the cost of journalists’ failure to report the truth and hold those in power accountable.
Bloomberg Bloomberg
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his company, Bloomberg LP, have invested heavily in China. Bloomberg LP sells terminals to its website through The Chinese market and helps Chinese companies raise money by channeling billions of dollars from U.S. investors into the Chinese bond market.
Bloomberg LP has backed 364 Chinese companies and steered about $150 billion into its bond offerings. Of these, 159 are directly controlled by the Communist Party.
The extent of Bloomberg’s efforts to placate the Chinese Communist Party was revealed in an April 14, 2020, report by THE NATIONAL Public Radio NPR. com. In 2014, Bloomberg killed a survey on the wealth of the Communist Party elite. The company used a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) not only to silence the Beijing-based journalist, but also to silence his wife, even though she had never worked at Bloomberg.
Reporter Mike Forsythe highlights the relationship between Communist Party President Xi Jinping and China’s richest man, Wang Jianlin. When the story was ready for publication, Matthew Winkler, the founding editor, told Mr. Forsyte that he would not publish it to avoid angering the Communist Party.
Winkler said, “It would certainly, you know, invite the Communist Party, you know, completely shut us down and kick us out of the country. So, I just don’t think it’s a legitimate story.”
When the story was suppressed, the company threatened to Sue Mr. Forsyte and his wife if they told the story about Mr. Winkler’s suppression.
Mike Bloomberg himself has been a defender of the Communist Party. He personally lobbied against President Donald Trump’s trade talks with China and applauded the Communist Party. Mr Xi is not a dictator, says Mr Bloomberg.
“The Communist Party wants to stay in power in China, and they listen to the people.” “Xi Is not a dictator,” Bloomberg said. He has to give what the voters want, or he can’t survive.”
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