Perhaps they need to read Newsweek?s new article about China?s Xinhua news agency:
The challenge is finding an audience for ?news? that is best known for its blind spots. The typical Xinhua sentence is thick on the tongue (?out of which 20 percent were the HIV-infected persons?) and often inaccurate by design. In Xinhua?s world, the Tiananmen Square massacre never happened, Falun Gong is an evil cult, and the Dalai Lama is the Guy Fawkes of Tibet. Xinhua also gathers sensitive news?such as the full heads-rolling horror of the Uighur riots last summer?and releases it to Chinese officials alone. It?s as if The New York Times were to stamp its scoops ?internal reference reports? and file them to President Obama.
One could hope that this background information could help squelch support for directing tax dollars toward dying American newspapers.
