{"id":207211,"date":"2020-05-14T07:44:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T07:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=207211"},"modified":"2020-05-17T06:58:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T06:58:58","slug":"how-the-trump-administration-inserts-blame-china-propaganda-into-main-stream-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=207211","title":{"rendered":"How The Trump Administration Inserts &#8216;Blame China&#8217; Propaganda Into Main Stream Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Moon of Alabama \u2013 May 13, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Throughout the last month there have been a number of reports with headlines like:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kenrapoza\/2020\/04\/14\/the-washington-post-goes-rogue-china-lab-in-focus-of-coronavirus-outbreak\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>China Lab In Focus Of Coronavirus Outbreak<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ccffff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/us-officials-sounded-alarm-about-wuhan-lab-years-before-coronavirus-outbreak\">US officials sounded alarm about Wuhan lab years before coronavirus outbreak<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ccffff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/us-officials-raised-alarms-about-safety-issues-in-wuhan-lab-report-2020-4?r=DE&amp;IR=T\">US officials were reportedly concerned that safety breaches at a Wuhan lab studying coronaviruses in bats could cause a pandemic<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">All the above and many more hark back to a <em>Washington Post<\/em> opinion piece by Josh Rogin published on April 14 and headlined:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/04\/14\/state-department-cables-warned-safety-issues-wuhan-lab-studying-bat-coronaviruses\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>State Department cables warned of safety issues at Wuhan lab studying bat coronaviruses<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Josh Rogin is a <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/militarist-monitor.org\/profile\/josh-rogin\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>neo-conservative hack<\/strong><\/span><\/a> who carries water for the Trump administration. That administration has launched a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/18\/us\/politics\/trump-china-virus.html\">&#8216;blame China&#8217; campaign<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to distract from its failure to contain the epidemic outbreak in the United States. To that purpose they handed Rogin an old diplomatic cable and told him how to &#8216;interpret&#8217; it. Rogin dutifully does as he is told.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He begins:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Two years before the novel coronavirus pandemic upended the world, U.S. Embassy officials visited a Chinese research facility in the city of Wuhan several times and sent two official warnings back to Washington about inadequate safety at the lab, which was conducting risky studies on coronaviruses from bats. The cables have fueled discussions inside the U.S. government about whether this or another Wuhan lab was the source of the virus \u2014 even though conclusive proof has yet to emerge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">That sets the frame for describing the one cable that was given to Rogin. But when one extracts the facts from his reporting while eliminating the propaganda this picture arises:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2020\/05\/how-the-trump-administration-inserts-blame-china-propaganda-into-main-stream-media.html#more\">Cont. reading: <em>How The Trump Administration Inserts &#8216;Blame China&#8217; Propaganda Into Main Stream Media<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration seems intent blaming China for the Covid-19 outbreak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207213,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207211\/revisions\/207213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}