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Of course he doesn't, as it's complete nonsense.

goldenkey 5y ago
Chinese mouthpiece paid US newspapers $19 mn in ads, printing: https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/chinese-mouthpiece-paid-us-newspapers-19-mn-in-ads-printing-report-120060900514_1.html https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/chin... Please refrain from reactionary insults like calling chrissnell's comment "nonsense." It's in poor taste even if you're supported by others who don't bother to perform even cursory research.
- mastax 5y ago
  Okay, China Daily paid for ads. Any evidence that "CCP paid The NY Times, LA Times, and other major papers to [...] not publish COVID lab leak pieces during 2020"?
  - goldenkey 5y ago
    China Daily (simplified Chinese: 中国日报; traditional Chinese: 中國日報; pinyin: Zhōngguó Rìbào) is an English-language daily newspaper owned by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party. I'm getting confused. Is China Daily separate from the CCP?
- Bud 5y ago
  China Daily actually paid mostly (if you actually read the FARA documents that were falsely cited above as evidence) to print copies of the China Daily for dissemination in the US. That's very clear from the documents. The advertising was a relatively minor endeavor by comparison and limited mostly to buying WaPo ads, whereas they paid a number of papers to print the China Daily. There's no evidence at all that US papers were paid to publish "propaganda pieces".
  - ShroudedNight 5y ago
    Was this a regular transaction? Was the price per unit notably divergent from other contracts? It's important to remember that graft often gets whitewashed in legitimate-looking transactions. That being said, $19 million USD sounds like a particularly insignificant sum for risk that would be incurred to the reputation of a single US tier 1 journalistic publication let alone multiple.
  - goldenkey 5y ago
    They paid millions for pro-china ads, the kind that look like actual articles. It's important to remember that graft often gets whitewashed in legitimate-looking transactions. The money, regardless of what it's for, is coming straight from the Chinese government. There is of course more money transfers that haven't been discovered. You don't have to be a genius to know that for every bit discovered there is a byte still covered.. China Daily (simplified Chinese: 中国日报; traditional Chinese: 中國日報; pinyin: Zhōngguó Rìbào) is an English-language daily newspaper owned by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party.
- chalst 5y ago
  chrissnell claims the NYT etc accepted money to spike stories. Your story doesn't validate his claim.
- lamontcg 5y ago
  Meanwhile the NYT published an article on the lab leak theory by the same author that published the 2003 article on Iraq's WMDs (co-author with Judith Curry) that helped push us into war. And I don't have to dig into anything financial to find that, its sitting there staring at you right on the byline.

Chinese mouthpiece paid US newspapers $19 mn in ads, printing: https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/chinese-mouthpiece-paid-us-newspapers-19-mn-in-ads-printing-report-120060900514_1.html https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/chin... Please refrain from reactionary insults like calling chrissnell's comment "nonsense." It's in poor taste even if you're supported by others who don't bother to perform even cursory research.

mastax 5y ago
Okay, China Daily paid for ads. Any evidence that "CCP paid The NY Times, LA Times, and other major papers to [...] not publish COVID lab leak pieces during 2020"?
- goldenkey 5y ago
  China Daily (simplified Chinese: 中国日报; traditional Chinese: 中國日報; pinyin: Zhōngguó Rìbào) is an English-language daily newspaper owned by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party. I'm getting confused. Is China Daily separate from the CCP?
Bud 5y ago
China Daily actually paid mostly (if you actually read the FARA documents that were falsely cited above as evidence) to print copies of the China Daily for dissemination in the US. That's very clear from the documents. The advertising was a relatively minor endeavor by comparison and limited mostly to buying WaPo ads, whereas they paid a number of papers to print the China Daily. There's no evidence at all that US papers were paid to publish "propaganda pieces".
- ShroudedNight 5y ago
  Was this a regular transaction? Was the price per unit notably divergent from other contracts? It's important to remember that graft often gets whitewashed in legitimate-looking transactions. That being said, $19 million USD sounds like a particularly insignificant sum for risk that would be incurred to the reputation of a single US tier 1 journalistic publication let alone multiple.
- goldenkey 5y ago
  They paid millions for pro-china ads, the kind that look like actual articles. It's important to remember that graft often gets whitewashed in legitimate-looking transactions. The money, regardless of what it's for, is coming straight from the Chinese government. There is of course more money transfers that haven't been discovered. You don't have to be a genius to know that for every bit discovered there is a byte still covered.. China Daily (simplified Chinese: 中国日报; traditional Chinese: 中國日報; pinyin: Zhōngguó Rìbào) is an English-language daily newspaper owned by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party.
chalst 5y ago
chrissnell claims the NYT etc accepted money to spike stories. Your story doesn't validate his claim.
lamontcg 5y ago
Meanwhile the NYT published an article on the lab leak theory by the same author that published the 2003 article on Iraq's WMDs (co-author with Judith Curry) that helped push us into war. And I don't have to dig into anything financial to find that, its sitting there staring at you right on the byline.