CNN Caught in Genocidal Correctness
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Before the Organ Harvesting Story
•1999: Falun Gong persecution begins. Media covers it. Then, White
House signs trade deal.
•2000: Ted Koppel has three guests for it, and zero against it.
Congress passes the trade deal. Each year since: News media dodges
many stories emerging from the Falun Gong crackdown.
•2003: This author gives a speech and coins the term "genocidal
correctness."
•2004: Anti-communist Falun Gong related newspaper, the Epoch Times,
debuts in English.
•2005: People begin quitting the Communist Party in droves. CNN dodges
the story.
The Organ Harvesting Story
•March 9, 2006: The Epoch Times breaks the story of forced organ
harvesting at a facility called Sujiatun (in Shenyang City, Liaoning
Province, China)
•Shortly thereafter: A military doctor of Shenyang military zone
corroborates the horror and indicates that a network of 36 facilities
participate.
•April 4, 2006: The Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun
Gong (CIPFG) is launched.
The heckler on the South Lawn of the White House and CNN's Wolf
Blitzer
•April 20, 2006: With an Epoch Times press pass and on the South Lawn
of the White House, Dr. Wenyi Wang becomes the "Rosa Parks" of this
cause, by shouting at the U.S. and Chinese Presidents who were meeting
together, "Stop the killing!"
•April 21, 2006: CNN's Wolf Blitzer on The Situation Room has Wenyi
Wang as a guest. On the way in during the elevator ride, Blitzer's
producer coaches and warns Wang: "Don't talk about organ harvesting!"
On TV, Blitzer proceeds to act like a school headmaster, scolding Wang
as though the only story was her disruption at the White House. She
was there with a message. CNN didn't get the message—although they
knew enough to say "shush" about that message just before the on-
camera appearance.
The Kilgour-Matas report and CNN's Anderson Cooper
•May 24, 2006: CIPFG seeks and obtains the help of Canadian public
figures, David Kilgour and David Matas, to investigate the allegations
of organ harvesting.
•June 17, 2006: While Kilgour and Matas were investigating, CNN's
Anderson Cooper did a report about "organ tourism," about a California
man who went to China for an organ transplant. Cooper did raise an
eyebrow at China, saying that a prison population was "vulnerable."
But, he stopped short of mentioning Falun Gong, so there was no
exposure of that persecution / crackdown campaign, and no indication
that the organ sources may be prisoners of conscience.
•July 6, 2006: Kilgour and Matas issue the first edition of their
report, later renamed Bloody Harvest. After looking over all available
evidence they wrote, "the government of China and its agencies have
put to death a large but unknown number of Falun Gong prisoners of
conscience. Their vital organs, including hearts, kidneys, livers and
corneas, were virtually simultaneously seized involuntarily for sale
at high prices." They concluded "that there has been and continues
today to be large-scale organ seizures from unwilling Falun Gong
practitioners."
The Kilgour-Matas report is the smoking gun. David Kilgour is a former
Member of Parliament in Canada, and was Secretary of State for the
Asia Pacific region. David Matas is an international human rights
attorney. With their political and legal backgrounds, they would know
better than to be casual or inexact with public statements. While they
knew the stakes in international relations, and while they knew the
enormity of the charges against Communist China, they nonetheless
undertook to inform the world of their findings.
The Kilgour-Matas report was never debunked by the news media;
however, for their own convenience reporters wrote that the entire
organ harvesting story was discredited. Apparently, reporters will
manufacture lies to suit their convenience and to preclude further
research or writing. The Wall Street Journal printed this falsehood,
but stopped before citing any source or basis. It's akin to printing,
"They say it's not true." That invites the question, who are "they"?
Perhaps, do U.S. reporters have communist masters in Beijing?
What sociopathic reporters were doing was clearly an example of
genocidal correctness and of making a choice to err on the side of
death, rather than to err on the side of life. Their omission is now
exposed, at least to history.
And at CNN? The release of the Kilgour-Matas report did not cause a
ripple. The point being that Kilgour and Matas got the story, and CNN
didn't. For that matter, the American public was kept in the dark for
the next two years.
Around the world, Kilgour and Matas got their points across. At the
end of 2006, I analyzed their clip sheet, and I learned interesting
things about where their publicity was (and wasn't):
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http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/3390/