Purveyors of Truth

So the one child policy is a "boon for girls", but 43 million girls have "disappeared" in China due to gender-selective abortions? How is massive prevalence of gender-selective abortions result in a news title that describes the policy as a good thing?

Of course, the bad stuff is buried at the bottom of the article, while the puff-piece on the one gender policy is at the top. That way the writer can say she is neutral, but knowing that most people only read the first couple of paragraphs.

To liberals, murder is okay so long as someone gets an IPad. Eugenics is "progress" for the liberals at the AP. This type of warped thinking would be akin to the AP saying in 1944 that Final Solution was great because it was lowering the cost of food due to reduced demand.

BEIJING (AP) — Tsinghua University freshman Mia Wang has confidence to spare.

Asked what her home city of Benxi in China's far northeastern tip is famous for, she flashes a cool smile and says: "Producing excellence. Like me." A Communist Youth League member at one of China's top science universities, she boasts enviable skills in calligraphy, piano, flute and pingpong.

Such gifted young women are increasingly common in China's cities and make up the most educated generation of women in Chinese history. Never have so many been in college or graduate school, and never has their ratio to male students been more balanced.

To thank for this, experts say, is three decades of steady Chinese economic growth, heavy government spending on education and a third, surprising, factor: the one-child policy.

...... (buried at the bottom of the article) ... With the arrival of sonogram technology in the 1980's, some families no longer merely hoped for a boy, they were able to engineer a male heir by terminating pregnancies when the fetus was a girl.

"It is gendercide," said Therese Hesketh, a University College London professor who has studied China's skewed sex ratio. "I don't understand why China doesn't just really penalize people who've had sex-selective abortions and the people who do them. The law exists but nobody enforces it."

To combat the problem, China allows families in rural areas, where son preference is strongest, to have a second child if their first is a girl. The government has also launched education campaigns promoting girls and gives cash subsidies to rural families with daughters.

Still, 43 million girls have "disappeared" in China due to gender-selective abortion as well as neglect and inadequate access to health care and nutrition, the United Nations estimated in a report last year.

Yin Yin Nwe, UNICEF's representative to China, puts it bluntly: The one-child policy brings many benefits for girls "but they have to be born first."

My take on satire: 

Yahoo/AP, 1943 Headline: FINAL SOLUTION BOON TO GERMANY

"Low food prices are abound in Germany thanks to the final solution that has eliminated many Jewish mouths to feed. With reduced demand, lower food prices were enjoyed by all of Germany. Wilhem Huebner has struggled to provide enough food for his family due to high prices. Often, little Heidi Huebner, 4, had gone hungry every night. However, ever since the final solution was implemented, prices have come down due to reduced demand. and little Heidi is hungry no more.........(several paragraphs down)... The decreased food prices come at a cost, says Michael von Faulhaber, and he further states that "several millions Jews have disappeared, never to be seen again. Inquiries into their location have been met with official silence." Still, for Heidi, that full stomach at night is a great feeling."