A good example of US media lies at work. Chen Jieren wasn't sentenced to prison for opposing the Communist Party, he was sentenced for extortion of businesses. The entire article leads the reader on, but omits some key details in the case. It implies that Chen was Party
Loyalist who suddenly discovered Jesus so to speak and that his arrest and sentencing according to some random US government funded "ngo" outfit was a violation of press freedoms. At no point are the actual details of his case ever actually discussed, rather just quoting anon US
sources like usual. What Chen was actually convicted on was running a media extortion scheme where he would drum up bad press targeted at businesses and blackmail targets if they didn't pay up his protection fee. None of that is ever mentioned, just nebulous press freedom claims.
