![]() ![]() “And all these angry, backbiting staffers were gathering there and demanding that heads roll and the most bloodthirsty of the employees were these sort of weird tech and audio staffers and then a handful of people who wrote for like the Arts and Leisure section, and the Style section, and the magazine, which, in other words, you know, it was no one who was actually out covering any of the protests or the riots or the politics. ![]() “There was like this giant communal Slack chat for the whole company that became sort of the digital gallows,” he told me. In a recently released book on media bias, author and former CNN producer Steve Krakauer interviewed ex- Times writer Shawn McCreesh, who gave an insider’s view of what he says he witnessed as the eruptions unfolded at the time: Bennet later said of the fallout that the paper “set me on fire and threw me in the garbage.” “China’s use of forced televised confessions warrants urgent global attention as Beijing steps up its aggressive push to globalize its state media.After all the smoke cleared, the NYT’s editorial page editor James Bennet, who had previously faced heat from Times staffers over his attempts at making the opinion pages more ideologically diverse, was forced by publisher A. “China’s televised confessions are gross violations of both domestic laws and international human rights,” the report says. The filming of confessions is often tightly choreographed to maximize propaganda value, with prisoners forced to read or memorize a scripted confession, then give rehearsals until China’s security officials are satisfied. It says the practice is linked to torture, threats and arbitrary detention, and shows the People’s Republic of China lacks a legitimate criminal justice system.Ĭhina’s state-run media’s airing of forced confessions makes it complicit in the abuses, the report says. The report calls the CCP’s forced confessions an attack on human dignity and the basic right to due process and a fair trial. Victims include lawyers, rights activists, journalists and bloggers as well as Uyghurs, a persecuted ethnic minority group subjected to the CCP’s mass internment in the Xinjiang region. The CCP targets critics or perceived enemies for forced confessions with vague national security or public order laws, such as “ picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” the report says. They urge the United Nations to recommend that China’s leaders implement legal reforms to stop forced televised confessions and strengthen due process protections. ![]() The rights groups’ submission on “China’s practice of extracting and broadcasting forced confessions before trial” documents 87 cases since 2013 where state security or police have forced pretrial confessions that are then aired on state-run media. ![]() “There is little to distinguish them from the repugnant practices of Mao-era public struggle sessions or Stalin’s infamous show trials.” “Forced televised confessions are part of a chain of systematic and widespread abuses of human rights perpetrated in order to serve the political interests of the CCP,” the report states. In a recent report to the United Nations (PDF, 1MB), groups including Safeguard Defenders and Human Rights Watch say the CCP forces critics into confessions that are then aired on state-run television, making a mockery of due process and the right to a fair trial. ![]()
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