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08/20/2001 The report makes no mention of the amount of money China allegedly spent to influence the election, nor which candidates it sought to help. Conclusions could be drawn from the case of Democrat fund-raiser, Johnny Chung, who figured prominently in the 1996 campaign finance scandal. He admitted helping to move $300,000 from a high-ranking Chinese military officer to Bill Clinton's presidential re-election campaign. The Senate Intelligence Committee report revealed that the intermediary between Chung and the Chinese officer was Liu Chao-ying, daughter of Gen. Liu Hua-qing. The report concluded, "While the primary focus of the (Chinese) plan was the U.S. Congress, the committee discovered no direct evidence or information of an actual attempt to influence a particular member of Congress." It further stated, "There is no intelligence information indicating that contributions had any influence on U.S. policy or the U.S. political process or that any recipients knew the contributions were from a foreign source." Whew! That's a relief! China's shenanigans are not particularly surprising. The outrage here is that the propaganda ministry acted uniformly in seeking to hide this report in the woodwork. No mention of this report was found on the web sites of CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC or Fox News. It was, nonetheless, considered newsworthy by Associated Press, Reuters and Newsmax. All three published stories on the report on August 10 or 11. This leads one to wonder: who are these propaganda functionaries protecting? China? Liu Chao-ying? Other Democrat party fund-raisers? Perhaps it was swept under the rug as a "moving on" birthday gift to William "Elvis" Clinton. A likely scenario is the desire of Democrats in the media to protect their hero and leave lingering questions about the veracity of Senate Republicans investigation into the campaign finance scandal. The failure to report news is bias by omission. That very sin has been committed in this case. The Senate Intelligence Committee evaluated whether intelligence substantiated allegations that China had tried to sway the elections through political donations and other means. They concluded that there was sufficient evidence that this had indeed happened. As if this were not outrageous enough, our news sources decided we really didn't need this information. Now THAT ought to make us all angry! Because the culprits are many, we have provided sample letters that you can either copy and paste into your word processing program, or if you are not that handy, simply print out and mail. Be sure to include the date and your return address as this will make your complaint more credible. Let's bury them in letters expressing our outrage! CNN E-mail addresses, fax and phone numbers can be found in the CCRM Rolodex. When you feel your personal media bias tolerance gauge rising into the red zone, don't throw stuff at the TV screen! Send your suggestion to outrage@fairpress.org! Each week, one hideous example of media bias will be selected for closer examination. Hmmmmmm . . .
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