China Celebrates Status As No. 1 Polluter, And Other Doublespeak
By Frederick Carle on April 2nd, 2008
This video from Onion News is really representative of China’s current attitude towards pollution
Well, not quite. But given the lengths the Olympics-geared propaganda machine may sometimes go in order to dress up the truth, the tone of the “ambassador” here is spot-on. Consider this doublespeak-laden reply I heard at a recent Olympics press conference, after a reporter asked about Beijing’s recent tweaking of pollution data:
