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Twitter and its Chinese equivalent, Sina Weibo, have also fueled false rumors about Chen. Some reporters flocked to the Washington airport to meet Chen upon his reported arrival from China, only to find that they'd been misled, the Epoch Times reported.

I love it! I bet that the dopes had questions like "Are you going straight to the White House to thank PRESIDENT! Obama?" "How do you feel about PRESIDENT! Obama?"

.. and some advice for Mr. Chen from the American "news" media "Here's how Americans feel about PRESIDENT! Obama, will you say this please: 'Obama! Obama! Mmmm mmmm mmm.'"

"Every new form of media has made it harder and harder to conduct secret diplomacy. TV made it harder. Social media made it harder," said Courtney Radsch, senior program manager of the Global Freedom of Expression campaign at Freedom House.

TV made it more difficult for governments? Yes and no. Depends entirely upon whether they share ideology.

Slowly beginning in the 1950s and then overwhelming the "news" media TV networks screwed .. I mean skewed news all day long. "Hey! I resemble that!" Walter "North Viet Nam Communists' most trusted man in America" Cronkite.

Note: No matter the TV networks' skewed news we found ways to get the rest of the story.. it was more difficult back then than today but we did it at times -- like the 1972 election. Then the media got even by going nuts over Watergate without ever explaining what Nixon did that JFK and LBJ didn't do. (LBJ would likely have gone to prison if he had not become president.)