{"id":1763192,"date":"2022-12-05T06:30:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T11:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1763192"},"modified":"2022-12-05T09:48:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T14:48:19","slug":"ny-post-editorial-board-medias-hypocrisy-on-china-protest-reveals-their-ugly-double-standard-for-u-s-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-post-editorial-board-medias-hypocrisy-on-china-protest-reveals-their-ugly-double-standard-for-u-s-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Post Editorial Board: Media\u2019s Hypocrisy on China Protest Reveals Their Ugly Double Standard for U.S. Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fny-post-editorial-board-medias-hypocrisy-on-china-protest-reveals-their-ugly-double-standard-for-u-s-citizens%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1763192&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/china-covid-protests.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Kudos to the New York Times (and other elite organs of journalism) for their full-court press on covering <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/30\/china-vows-to-resolutely-crack-down-as-protests-continue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the courageous protests in China against Xi Jinping\u2019s insane \u201czero COVID\u201d policies<\/a> and for the sympathy they\u2019ve mustered for average people suffering under an oppressive yoke.<\/p>\n<p>But where was this nuanced understanding when North America\u2019s own mad COVID overreaction was in full swing?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nowhere in evidence. In April 2021, for example, the Times\u2019 Max Fisher was suggesting people uncritically accept future lockdown measures in the United States and western Europe<strong> <\/strong>and obliquely praising them as conducive to a \u201cdesire to cope by looking out for one\u2019s neighbors.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Contrast that with his writing on the Chinese protests last week: \u201cOutside observers could be forgiven for seeing hints of the Arab Spring, even revolution, in the protests sweeping China\u2019s cities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The paper of record also ran news articles alleging the existence of a sinister cabal of right-wingers masterminding protests against (anti-science) \u201cstop the spread\u201d measures and countless op-eds defending (completely useless) school closures, social isolation and other public-health disasters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For our progressive-dominated media, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=23932950&#038;action=edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">US citizens pushing back against the policies<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/09\/09\/faucis-direct-line-to-zuck-proves-facebook-covid-censorship-was-all-about-power\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">kept their kids out of school, destroyed their business and broke their lives apart<\/a> were either conspiracy-minded whackjobs or their dupes. (And remember, too, that even at the time praise for Black Lives Matter protests flowed alongside simultaneous damnation of anti-lockdown protests).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Heck, one woke, lockdown-loving stalwart, The Washington Post\u2019s Taylor Lorenz, actually  <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/01\/taylor-lorenz-defends-chinas-zero-covid-lockdowns\/\"><em>defended<\/em> Beijing<\/a>. A caption in her paper flagged \u201ca critical flaw in Beijing\u2019s \u2018zero COVID\u2019 strategy: a vast population without natural immunity.\u201d Lorenz tweeted critically: \u201cChoosing not to kill off millions of vulnerable people (as the US is doing) isn\u2019t a \u2018critical flaw.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The moral un-clarity It wasn\u2019t confined to the press, either. While Joe Biden\u2019s White House has weakly signaled modest support for China\u2019s protests, it backed the hardline tactics used by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to break the national trucker protests against absurd COVID policies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yes, China\u2019s policies are far more restrictive than anything the United States put in place \u2014 though, if <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/22\/good-riddance-to-dr-fauci\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the chief architect of our COVID disaster, Anthony Fauci<\/a>, is to be believed, that\u2019s not for lack of trying. The Good Doctor <em>still<\/em> argues we were not restrictive <em>enough<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Welding people inside their apartment, dragging the infected away screaming, using the state\u2019s massive surveillance apparatus to deprive people of their rights and strong-arming Apple into cutting off a key communication channel for the protesters are all far worse (thank God) than the harms Americans suffered.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s to say nothing of the fact that China\u2019s censors try to keep citizens in the dark about the fact the rest of the world is done with the pandemic and all restrictions. <\/p>\n<p>But the appalling double standard here in the United States exposes beyond any doubt both the moral hollowness of our media and the vapidity of \u201cpublic health expertise.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to the New York Times (and other elite organs of journalism) for their full-court press on covering the courageous protests in China against Xi Jinping\u2019s insane \u201czero<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1763198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1763192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1763192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1763198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}