The Viciousness of U.S.-and-Allied ‘News’-Media: an
Update
Eric Zuesse, December 19, 2021
UPDATE, 19 December 2021, of November 23rd report:
Yet again, the Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai has
said, in public, “I need to stress one point that is extremely important, I
have never said or written that anyone has sexually assaulted me, I have to clearly
stress this point.” And, yet again, the lying Western ‘news’-media — which had
previously reported lies that Saddam Hussein was six months from having a
nuclear bomb, and famously lied also about so much else, concerning Libya,
Ukraine, Syria, and many other nations — are reporting, instead, their
unauthenticated allegations to the contrary, and are challenging (without
evidence) the truthfulness of Peng’s statements about this matter.
In the latest, December 19th, Reuters ‘news’-report that quotes this statement from her, denying the truthfulness of the U.S.-and-allied allegations that she had said that she had been “sexually assaulted” by a former high Chinese official, Reuters raises the question as to whether China’s Government was forcing her to say that she had never said any such thing: “She also said that she had been living at home in Beijing without supervision.” That intentionally ambiguous allegation by Reuters about Peng’s statement that Reuters claimed to be reporting about (and they neither link to nor otherwise provide to the reader access to her statement here, to verify that they are accurately quoting her), could have related to a reporter’s question as to whether she was under some sort of house-arrest by China’s Government, but it also could have related, instead, to a question as to where she has been, and what she has been doing, during the past month. Reuters left this Reuters statement’s meaning hanging, didn’t explain it, at all, but obviously just wanted to leave readers thinking that she must be under house-arrest and forced to deny that she had ever alleged such “sexual assault.” If that isn’t vicious ‘news’-reporting, then what is?
Here was my news-report
that was published on November 23rd, and that is now being updated:


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