Human Rights Group Calls on NYT to Retract ‘Propaganda Hit Piece’ Against Shen Yun

Recent articles by The New York Times attacking Shen Yun Performing Arts, an arts group run by Chinese dissidents, are flawed to the point of requiring retraction, according to a recent report. The paper’s longest article, at 5,000 words, “overtly employs the basic tools of a propaganda hit piece,” including  “emotionally manipulative language and imagery,” the report states. “The extent to which the Times’ reporting achieves the goals of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is also worth noting and deeply disturbing,” it states. The CCP has targeted Shen Yun since the company was founded in the United States in 2006 by a group of Chinese expats who practiced Falun Gong, a Chinese spiritual discipline based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. The practice has been brutally persecuted by the CCP for the past quarter-century....