Take a gander at the front page of the Globe and Mail today; "FIRST LOOK AT CHINESE FORCED- LABOUR CAMP," the all caps headline screams at us!
Great! We've heard so much about these "concentration camps." Finally Nathan Vanderklippe is going to provide us with a actual first look!
Alas, the 4,000 words that follow scarcely live up to the promise of that headline. He took a picture of some buildings behind a fence, where allegedly the commies are building daycares to free up parents to go to work, and other concentration-camp-type outrages. Vanderklippe taps a trio of "Western researchers" to flesh out his utterly news-free scoop. They are:
Professor Laura Murphy, a seasoned anti-China hand whose most recent Yellow Peril screed appeared in the Washington Post mere days ago
Nathan Ruser of the rabidly anti-Chinese Australia Strategic Policy Institute
Adrian Zenze, an anti-communist "human rights activist."
At the Globe and Mail, the concept of balanced journalism is dead and buried. Instead, a regular diet of anti-China propaganda, driven by the US State Department, is pretty much the only point of view we're going to get.
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