{"id":73859,"date":"2020-04-14T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73859"},"modified":"2020-04-14T10:15:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T15:15:16","slug":"the-new-stasi-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73859","title":{"rendered":"The New Stasi, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bloomberg News &#8211; the news organization owned by the guy who wants you to have the same right to self-defense that the Chinese have &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/04\/14\/828565428\/bloomberg-news-killed-investigation-fired-reporter-then-sought-to-silence-his-wi?fbclid=IwAR1ue7yZtRlTxj_Of5sPuq-Q51Ec3iQtrwWnQg7fmZoJkRGGv6puZsR4_ek\">apparently fired a reporter who wrote a piece critical of the Chicoms<\/a>, and went out of the way to shut up his wife:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Six years ago, Bloomberg News killed an investigation into the wealth of Communist Party elites in China, fearful of repercussions by the Chinese government.The company successfully silenced the reporters involved. And it sought to keep the spouse of one of the reporters quiet, too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;They assumed that because I was the wife of their employee, I was the wife,&#8221; the author and journalist Leta Hong Fincher tells NPR. &#8220;I was just an appendage of their employee. I was not a human being.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the whole thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The report comes from NPR.\u00a0 \u00a0One would hope that that was due to actual journalists reporting an actual story.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I said &#8220;hope&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg News &#8211; the news organization owned by the guy who wants you to have the same right to self-defense that the Chinese have &#8211; apparently fired a reporter who wrote a piece critical of the Chicoms, and went out of the way to shut up his wife: Six years ago, Bloomberg News killed an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,130,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-tc-media-bias","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73860,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73859\/revisions\/73860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}