My family business is journalism. My father was a reporter and then editor for more than 40 years. My sister wrote a newspaper column for 20. And I have worked at the Washington Post and The NY Times. Never have I read beliefs about journalism that are so wrong. I am deeply offended that you believe my entire bleeping family spent the entirety of their careers as “propagandists,” that every move they made in their professional lives was directed by Big Brother. Have you ever heard the saying “afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted”? That is the mission of journalism, not furthering the agenda of anyone in power. Well, unless you work for Fox News. And by the way: no U.S. citizen is hurt by China?!?! Have you heard of intellectual property law? Every innovation created in American laboratories is reverse engineered by the Chinese, to the detriment of everyone in the West. Even hack writers from Australia.