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(Ho Chi Minh City)--Between the latest fuss over "stigmatization" of the outbreak as the "Chinese virus," and expulsion of biased Yankee journalists from Beijing, there is little rest in the media of late. Cissy Zhou of the South China Morning Post reports on the boot for the reporters;
"The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that it was revoking the press credentials for American journalists from three newspapers, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, requiring them to return their media passes within 10 days and essentially expelling them from the country.
Beijing also declared five US media outlets – Voice of America, The Times, The Journal, The Post and Time magazine – to be foreign government functionaries, identifying them as agencies controlled by Washington." (SCMP)
Just who are the government lackeys for the media in question? WaPo, NY Times and WSJ shows who's who either in Beijing or at-large;
Washington Post, China
Anna Fifield, Beijing Bureau Chief
Gerry Shih, China Correspondent
Shibani Mahtani, Hong Kong
New York Times
Amy Qin is a China correspondent for The New York Times in Beijing covering the intersection of culture, politics and society. She has written about China’s soft power efforts, Asia’s booming art market, independent filmmakers in the Philippines and a mysterious North Korean-backed art museum in Cambodia.
Wall St Journal
Deputy Bureau Chief Josh Chin, reporter Chao Deng, and reporter Philip Wen were given five days to leave China by the Foreign Ministry. (SCMP)
As for the "stigma," over the name of the virus,
China opposes U.S. stigmatization by calling coronavirus "Chinese virus"
BEIJING, March 17 (Xinhua) -- China is strongly indignant at and firmly opposes U.S. stigmatization by calling the novel coronavirus "Chinese virus", and urges the United States to correct its mistakes and stop making groundless accusations against China, according to a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tuesday.
Sources,
Expuslion, https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3075647/china-revokes-press-credentials-american-journalists-3-us
WaPo, https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/world/washington-post-foreign-correspondents/
NY Times, https://www.nytimes.com/by/javier-c-hernandez
NY Times, https://www.nytimes.com/by/amy-qin
WSJ, https://www.businessinsider.com/china-expel-wsj-reporters-claims-racist-coronavirus-coverage-2020-2
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