The Epoch Times Becomes Origin of Rumors

Since the establishment of the Epoch Times and its Website, there has been suspicious news, namely rumors, emerging on such media outlets everyday. The rumors aiming at China are always available. Some reports are based on exaggeration, while some others are created out of nothing. For instance, the report on harvesting organs alive in Sujiatun was completely fabricated by Falun Gong and the Epoch. As to the real people and real events, the Epoch Times may launch crazy hype. Their behaviors won them the title of rumor origin. In 2006, Falun Gong released a report on harvesting organs alive in Sujiatun. To further spread the rumor, the Epoch Times opened a special column on its website, which made the small village Sujiatun a well-known place. The report claimed that more than 6, 000 Falun Gong practitioners had been secretly detained in the village and the organs of several hundreds of practitioners were harvested everyday when they were still alive. Even after the report was proved to be a lie by the US Embassy in China, Falun Gong media did not stop their attempts. They invited some so-called international celebrities to lobby for them here and there. Now several years have passed, the report on harvesting organs alive in Sujiatun has turned into a laughing stock of international community. In 2008, the Epoch Times smeared China’s efforts to host the Olympic Games. They released series of articles claiming that China is not able to host the Olympic Games, and even predicted that the CCP would collapse before the Olympic Games, all of which reflected that they are making use of every chance to bring disgrace on China. The Epoch Times tried hard to spread rumors about the Olympic Games. Just prior to the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, Anna, a journalist working for the Epoch Times, wrote in the article “Beijing Olympic Games, Gospel or Misfortune for CCP?” that prospect of the Olympic Games was rather unpredictable. Before the release of this article, a large number of rumors had been published by the Epoch Times. Such articles include “The Collapse of CCP is Needed for Hosting the Olympic Games”, “The Countdown of Olympic Games Is the Countdown of CCP Collapse”, “The Apocalypse Predicted Bush May Witness CCP Collapse in the Trip to Olympic Games”. Tang Zi, a faithful writer for the Epoch Times, made a more ridiculous prediction that CCP will collapse on August 8, 2008, which turned out to be foolish joke. It seems that the Epoch Times becomes extremely excited these days. The Epoch Times made a fuss about the fall of Bo Xilai and Wang Lijun. But their real target is not limited to the accident of Bo Xilai and Wang Lijun. The Epoch Times has established a special column titled “Focus: Chongqing Event may Trigger Collapse of CCP”, which obviously reflected their real purpose. There are nearly 100 articles in the column, several scores of which involve rumors or exaggerated accounts. The articles highlighted the striking insight and the secrets released by well informed people, while neglecting CCP’s decision to oust Bo and Wang. Rumor has been unacceptable in any society. When the truth is fully revealed, people hate the rumormongers bitterly. The Epoch Times is the mouthpiece of Falun Gong movement. In recent years, Falun Gong has kept on smearing China with the assistance of the anti –China forces in western countries. They made use of every chance to bring disgrace on China. On the one hand, they are complaining that they are under the suppression of China; on the other hand, they are vigorously smearing China. They collaborate with their boss to spread rumors against China no matter what China is doing, bad or good. They took every chance to spread rumors, and have become rumor origin and a dump yard.