Next they will be advertising for Nazis and Muslims. B Washington Post runs ads for Chinese Communist Party
========================================== Why I quit the Washington Post Posted: November 9, 2007 by Joseph Farah WND.commentary WorldNetDaily http://www.worldnet <http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58554> daily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58554 I canceled my subscription to the Washington Post the other day. I hadn't been reading the paper for some time, but that's not what prompted me to stop it. It was cluttering up my driveway, but that's not what prompted me to stop it. I could read anything I wanted to read in the Washington Post online, but that's not what prompted me to stop it. The paper is full of biased coverage, but that's not what prompted me to stop it. So what did push me over the edge? It was a six-page advertising supplement by the totalitarian government of China boasting about its 17th National Congress of the Communist Party. I'll bet no one at the Washington Post even gave a second thought to whether the paper should accept advertising money from a totalitarian police state responsible for unspeakable crimes against its own people. I'll bet no one at the Washington Post considered whether it is morally right to publish this state-sponsored propaganda within the pages of the paper. Most of the content of this special advertising supplement focused on the 2008 Olympics and the wonderful steps China is taking to make the Games appealing to Westerners. Not mentioned, of course, were the forced relocation of millions of people so that Beijing streets will look nice for the tourists. I'm just fed up with the world's acceptance of Chinese oppression. Has everyone been bought off? Are Americans unaware of the way Chinese workers are exploited, how it is illegal in this Communist "worker's paradise" to organize a labor union? Do people not understand what a coercive one-child policy means? What is it about organ harvesting that is so difficult to comprehend? Forget China's plans for the future, its military buildup, its bellicose threats against Taiwan, its partnerships with Iran and Venezuela. We can judge China on the basis of how the government treats its own people - like 1 billion subjects. So that's why I finally canceled the Washington Post. I should have done it a long time ago. The old newspaperman in me dies hard. But that China advertising supplement was the last straw for me. It's bad enough I am asked to pay for a paper I don't really want. But when the advertising is so offensive and so insulting to my intelligence, I just couldn't take another day. Imagine, for instance, the Washington Post of 1939 accepting an advertising supplement from Nazi Germany. Would there be outrage? Would there be consequences? Would there be second thoughts? I'm sure there would be. But no one apparently considers China to be what it obviously is - the biggest tyranny on the planet today. I'm sure my canceling of the Washington Post won't make the slightest difference in the way the paper makes its decisions. Nor do I think it will make the slightest difference in the way China is viewed by the U.S. press or the public in general. But I just have to make my voice heard - on behalf of the hundreds of millions of oppressed Chinese people who suffer in silence under the ruthless iron hand of state socialism. It's bad enough papers like the Washington Post don't blow the whistle on this kind of evil. Is it really necessary for papers to actively participate in it by accepting money from these regimes and publishing their propaganda? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? 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