(Minghui.org) In early July 2013, Wang Huan, director and host of the Chinese Central Television (CCTV)'s Program Forecast and host of Next Week's Movies , died of cancer at the age of 43.
The Chinese media widely reported on Wang's death and attributed it to the heavy workload and the intense pressure he was under as a media host. The media also reported that media professionals were at the forefront among all professionals that suffer poor health due to work related fatigue. They listed seven CCTV hosts who had died in the past four years.
So does it really hurt a person's health to work as a TV host? Did those hosts really die as a result of heavy workloads?
I don't intend to imply that these media professionals did not work hard. It just seems highly unlikely that their workload alone could have destroyed their health.
A job with great benefits
The government provides significant compensations for these high profile television professionals, such as periodic quality medical exams, regularly scheduled vacations, the best hospitals and doctors for the slightest problem, etc. According to public record, once these people are selected by the CCP, their lives are no longer their own, and the CCP does not care how much money and manpower it takes to ensure their good health.
The CCP has very high requirements for its central TV station staff and, at the same time, offers exceptional material support when it comes to their work, their families, their health, and their reputations. The recent coverage is a calculated attempt to attribute their deaths to cumulative health issues and intensive workload.
The cost of ignoring one's conscience
Then why did these people die so young? Perhaps it was indeed related to their work. They said what the CCP wanted them to say, not what they chose to say. They knew they were telling lies, yet they kept on telling them. For years. On top of that, they made an effort to pour a lot of passion into those lies. This took a toll on them both physically and mentally.
Chinese traditional medicine believes that the state of a person's health is a reflection of her or her state of mind. According to traditional wisdom, a healthy mind makes for a healthy body, or "a mind at peace means a body without illness."
Modern medicine also attributes many health problems, such as cancer, breast hyperplasia, glaucoma, hypertension, etc. to a person's state of mind. If a person habitually tells lies and fakes every smile, how can his health not be affected?
In March of this year, Bai Yansheng, host of CCTV's opera programs, submitted his resignation. He later said that he felt he was acting at work. After getting home and lying in bed, he felt as if his body and soul were completely separated. He once asked himself, “How many true things have I said year after year?” So what would happen if he spoke the truth for a change? Bai Yansheng answered like this, “I could not express my true feelings and real opinions when I worked at CCTV. If I had, I would have been invited to 'have a talk with my superiors' and been disciplined. People cannot imagine the many restrictions, even in the field of TV soap opera programs.”
CCTV is one of the Party's major mouthpieces. It uses CCTV to brainwash the country, which, in turn, has ill effect on CCTV employees. Wang Huan spent 20 years of her life telling lies for the CCP, poisoning the minds of the Chinese people, but it also caused her own death.
From the perspective of many traditional and contemporary schools of thought, these people have deliberately confused right and wrong, reversed black and white, and committed grave sins. “What goes around, comes around,” is one of the many ways that this is expressed in the West.
Two other prominent examples are Luo Jing, former anchor of CCTV News, and Chen Hong, former deputy director of CCTV's Social Topics Division.
Luo Jing
Luo Jing told whatever lies the CCP wanted him to tell. For over 10 years after the persecution of Falun Gong began, Luo was probably the worst culprit in CCTV's slandering of Falun Gong to incite hatred of its practitioners. His special post did not allow him to have his own opinions or emotions.
Submitting to self-inflicted brainwashing, he willingly assumed the role of CCP spokesperson to denounce Falun Gong. The CCP propaganda campaign falsified excuses to justify the persecution, resulting in the incarceration and deaths of countless practitioners.
Luo's death was totally unrelated to work fatigue. According to information provided by insiders, Luo looked self-righteous on camera even as he frequented Hou Hai and Sanlitun, two disreputable hangouts for Beijing's big shots and social climbers. He leered at women and tipped generously.
He fainted in a nightclub he frequented and was taken to the emergency room. Some time later he died of lymphoma on June 5, 2009, at the age of 48.
Chen Hong
Chen Hong was the former vice director of the News Commentary Division and former vice director of CCTV's Social Topics Division. He was once in charge of the TV programs Straight Talk , Investigative News Report , Oriental Horizon , and Living Space . He surely enjoyed fame and power during his years at CCTV.
On January 23, 2001, the CCP staged the Tiananmen Square self-immolation to defame Falun Gong. (The incident was investigated by multiple international organizations and was determined to be fake.) CCP used the staged event to instigate hatred of Falun Gong practitioners and as an excuse to launch the comprehensive persecution soon afterwards. Chen was one of the producers of the self-immolation TV program. He died on December 24, 2008, at the age of 47.
