Why do members of the free press keep parroting Chinese agitprop, including the preposterous and totally unverified claim that China has had not a single new coronavirus death since January?
Now seems like a good time to remind everyone that the regime that claims now to have had no new coronavirus deaths since January is the same regime that claims only 200 civilians and security personnel died in the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. (The actual number may be as high as 10,000.)
That latter part about state-provided photos should serve as a red flag. Has NBC spoken to anyone in Wuhan? Does anyone in the newsroom know anybody with a camera who may be able to verify that the state-provided photos are not from November? NBC's reporters seem incapable of considering that China’s data, and its potentially staged photographs, are unreliable and should not be passed along to viewers as fact.
But don't be too hard on NBC — a whole slew of Western news outlets, including Bloomberg News, CNN, the New York Times, and the Washington Post are doing the same thing.
