Skip to main content
  • CNSNews.com
  • MRC TV
  • Biz & Media
  • Culture & Media
  • TimesWatch
  • Take Action!

Join Us @:
Facebook
Twitter
Amazon Kindle

Free email alerts!

NewsBusters logo
May 24, 2013
  • Home
  • Blogs
  • About
  • Forum
  • Take Action
  • Contact
  • Donate
  • Search
  • RSS

Hot Topics

  • Obama Targets Fox News
  • IRS Targets Tea Party
  • Censoring the News
Home » Blogs » Ken Shepherd's blog
  • NBC Fails to Report Its Own Scoop That AG Holder Approved Investigation of Fox's Rosen
  • Video: Bozell's Prediction Pans Out, Media In Full-on 'Move On' Mode in Obama Scandal Coverage
  • The Long Hike: Media’s 13 Years of Bullying Boy Scouts Over Gays
  • Only CBS Notes IRS Official’s Leave, Yet ABC and NBC Have Time to Show Obama’s Prom Photo with ‘Foxy’ Friend
  • Hearing on IRS With Lerner Taking the Fifth? Newspapers Had No Front Page Story Thursday
  • Chris Matthews Trashes 'Morning Joe' for Being 'Open to All People's Points of View'
  • Thursday Morning: Fox Gives 15 Minutes to Latest IRS Scandal Details; NBC and ABC Ignore
  • On Taxpayer-subsidized PBS, Liberal Reporters Lament Benghazi Won't Go Away

Washington Post Still Avoiding Describing Chinese Dissident Chen As a 'Human Rights Activist'

By Ken Shepherd | May 07, 2012 | 16:10

A  A
Ken Shepherd's picture

In the domain of what properly constitutes human rights issues, forced abortions and sterilizations have to fall in that category. So why isn't the Washington Post describing Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng as a "human rights activist"?

In two stories packaged side-by-side on page A9 of the May 8 paper, the Post's Andrew Higgins and Keith B. Richburg failed to use the term to describe Chen. Higgins tagged Chen a "blind activist," as in an activist who is blind, not an activist for the blind, but the term could confuse casual readers unfamiliar with Chen's plight. Richburg opened his story by tagging Chen as "the self-taught lawyer who has become the center of a diplomatic crisis between the United States and China."

What's more, while at least Higgins made note of the fact that Chen had been protesting forced abortions; nowhere in Richburg's article was that fact mentioned.

You may recall that last week, Washington Examiner's Tim Carney noticed that the Post was reluctant to go into detail about how Chen was in trouble with Chinese authorities for having "exposed the horrors of China’s one-child policy, including forced abortions and forced sterilizations."

About the Author

Ken Shepherd is Managing Editor of NewsBusters. Click here to follow Ken Shepherd on Twitter.
  • Abortion
  • China
  • Foreign Policy
  • Media Bias Debate
  • Andrew Higgins
  • Chen Guangcheng
  • Keith Richburg
  • Government & Press
  • Ken Shepherd's blog
  • Login to post comments
  • Printer-friendly version
Stop Censoring The Gosnell Trial!

Comments

they got our money

Submitted by frank_andrini on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 4:22pm.

The MSM cannot anger their Chinese masters. After all- look at how much of our money and debt China controls.
How about this: we negotiate a deal with the original inhabitants of North America and hand the country over to the Indians. They put US(A) on the Gold Standard and tell China where they can shove the debt and LD containers full of $100 bills.
Then they give us back the country. Of course they could charge a fee for such a service after all we are not communists.

Trust America not politicians
  • Login to post comments

Because abortions on both sides of the Pacific, is a sacred rite

Submitted by upcountrywater on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 5:01pm.

Of course it's 3 strikes and you are out.

Christian

Hates Commies

Hates planned parenthood.

 

And yes he was scared off hopping on an aircraft.

You Didn't Build That.

  • Login to post comments

Kern County detainees

Submitted by frank_andrini on Tue, 05/08/2012 - 8:57am.

Does anyone remember the Chinese women that were held FOR SEVERAL YEARS WITHOUT CHARGES BEING FILED in the 90's? They had escape forced abortions in China only to be turned back over to Chinese authorities by our State Department. In America- land of the free and home of the brave.

Trust America not politicians
  • Login to post comments

Frank,So Clinton had previous experience,with abortion haters.

Submitted by upcountrywater on Tue, 05/08/2012 - 1:23pm.

We shouldn't worry our self's over this issue now , everything's going to be just fine.....just fine.....

U.S. President Barack Obama's   administration had feared a standoff over Chen's fate could sour ties with China and kindle criticism of Obama's policies.

U.S. President Barack Obama's  bubba's administration had feared a standoff over Chen's that woman's fate could sour ties with China and kindle criticism of Obama's bubba's policies.

You Didn't Build That.

  • Login to post comments

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.
Stop Censoring The Gosnell Trial!

Editors' Picks

  • Obama/Holder DOJ's radical departure on press freedom is chilling (Boutrous @ WSJ)
  • Oops: Obama fails to salute Marine, went back to shake hand (Weekly Standard)
  • Deputy kills PBS NewsHour staffer (Washington Examiner)
  • Oklahoma disaster was tragic, but larger ones have occurred (USA Today)
  • Mainstream Media Scream: Today’s Savannah Guthrie questions GOP ‘overreach’ (Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner)
  • Desperate Carney complains asking about scandals like asking about birth certificate (RCP)
  • Look at NYT's partisan-hack rewrite of the IRS hearing (Draw and STRIKE!)
Ann Coulter's picture
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter Column: When Did We Vote to Become Mexico?
Chuck Norris's picture
Chuck Norris
Chuck Norris Column: Why Tim Tebow Is an Ultimate Clutch Player
Walter E. Williams's picture
Walter E. Williams
Walter E. Williams Column: Hating America
Michelle Malkin's picture
Michelle Malkin
Malkin Column: Obama's Emptiest Benghazi Talking Point
Ann Coulter's picture
Ann Coulter
Coulter Column: Sorry, Sen. Rubio, But Your Immigration Plan Is Still Problematic
More >

RSS FeedAmazon KindleFacebookTwitter

Stop Censoring The News!

Gosnell's Just the Tip of the Iceberg
more cartoons
  • HUH? Slate Editor: Kaitlyn Hunt Case 'Is About Gay Rights. But It’s Not About That'
  • Weekend Open Thread
  • Leno: ‘Not Looking Good for Obama - Today His Teleprompter Took the Fifth’
  • Robert Redford Blasts America's Belief System, Tech Advancements
  • Dennis Miller: 'Nixonian' Obama Will Need Teleprompter to Say 'I Am Not a Crook'
More >
NewsBusters

Executive Editor
Matthew Sheffield

Editor at Large
Brent Baker

Senior Editors
Tim Graham
Rich Noyes

Managing Editor
Ken Shepherd

Associate Editor
Noel Sheppard

Contributing Editors
Tom Blumer
Geoffrey Dickens
Dan Gainor
David Limbaugh
Mithridate Ombud
Clay Waters
Scott Whitlock

Senior Contributor
Mark Finkelstein

Contributing Writers
Matthew Balan
Michael M. Bates
Erin R. Brown
Jack Coleman
Kyle Drennen
Douglas Ernst
P. J. Gladnick
Stephen Gutowski
Matt Hadro
D. S. Hube
Kathleen McKinley
Dave Pierre
Amy Ridenour
Julia A. Seymour
Terry Trippany
Rusty Weiss
Brad Wilmouth

Publisher
Brent Bozell

Site Design
Dialog New Media

 

  • Home
  • Blogs
  • About
  • Forum
  • Contact
  • Donate
  • Search
  • Account
  • rss
  • CNSNews
  • MRC TV
  • Biz & Media
  • Culture & Media
  • Take Action!
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Amazon Kindle
  • Advertise
  • Jobs

Copyright © 2005-2013 NewsBusters.
Privacy Policy | Terms of Use