Story here. Emphasis mine. Read the whole thing.
As an aside, journalists pride themselves because they file "the first draft of history." What they too often forget is that historians file the later drafts of history, without the pressure to be politically correct in contemporary context. Historians can say things that, apparently, journalists can't.
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There is plenty of gravity to this matter if it sinks in that this is real—a confirmed crime against humanity that may still be in progress. And, it happens in a context that has also gone unreported—the crackdown against Falun Gong in China. To be fair, it was reported back in 1999 when it began. To be accurate, it dropped out of the news after, late in 1999, U.S. President Bill Clinton signed a "free trade" deal with China.
The heckler on the South Lawn of the White House and CNN's Wolf Blitzer
- April 20, 2006: With an Epoch Times press pass and on the South Lawn of the White House, Dr. Wenyi Wang becomes the "Rosa Parks" of this cause, by shouting at the U.S. and Chinese Presidents who were meeting together, "Stop the killing!"
- April 21, 2006: CNN's Wolf Blitzer on The Situation Room has Wenyi Wang as a guest. On the way in during the elevator ride, Blitzer's producer coaches and warns Wang: "Don't talk about organ harvesting!" On TV, Blitzer proceeds to act like a school headmaster, scolding Wang as though the only story was her disruption at the White House. She was there with a message. CNN didn't get the message—although they knew enough to say "shush" about that message just before the on-camera appearance.
The Kilgour-Matas report and CNN's Anderson Cooper
- May 24, 2006: CIPFG seeks and obtains the help of Canadian public figures, David Kilgour and David Matas, to investigate the allegations of organ harvesting.
- June 17, 2006: While Kilgour and Matas were investigating, CNN's Anderson Cooper did a report about "organ tourism," about a California man who went to China for an organ transplant. Cooper did raise an eyebrow at China, saying that a prison population was "vulnerable." But, he stopped short of mentioning Falun Gong, so there was no exposure of that persecution / crackdown campaign, and no indication that the organ sources may be prisoners of conscience.
- July 6, 2006: Kilgour and Matas issue the first edition of their report, later renamed Bloody Harvest. After looking over all available evidence they wrote, "the government of China and its agencies have put to death a large but unknown number of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience. Their vital organs, including hearts, kidneys, livers and corneas, were virtually simultaneously seized involuntarily for sale at high prices." They concluded "that there has been and continues today to be large-scale organ seizures from unwilling Falun Gong practitioners."
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The Kilgour-Matas report was never debunked by the news media; however, for their own convenience reporters wrote that the entire organ harvesting story was discredited. Apparently, reporters will manufacture lies to suit their convenience and to preclude further research or writing. The Wall Street Journal printed this falsehood, but stopped before citing any source or basis. It's akin to printing, "They say it's not true." That invites the question, who are "they"? Perhaps, do U.S. reporters have communist masters in Beijing?
