【新唐人2015年01月09日讯】1981年，大陆有一则报导称，美国西点军校也在学雷锋。被中共利用来洗脑大众，大力热捧的雷锋风靡到海外，这个消息一传出，在当时可算是所谓的“为国争光”。不过，经过34年，作者出面道歉，说其实这只是西方愚人节的一个玩笑，一切都是假的。
34年前的一则“西点军校学雷锋”新闻，疯传中国。
由于这则新闻，使得不少中国人去西点军校寻找美国人学雷锋的踪迹留影照相，西点军校多次辟谣无果，学校被搞的筋疲力尽。
34年后，原作者出面道歉，承认这是一条假新闻。
1月4号，退休的新华社记者李竹润发微博写道：“1981年愚人节，某外电播发‘消息’西点军校学员学雷锋，高唱‘学习雷锋好榜样’。我不加思索，便把它写进文章(署笔名黎信)。直到1997年在《读书》杂志上看到李慎之揭露谎言的文章，才知道自己上了当。”
李竹润承认，因为当时新华社的新闻受文革影响，很多假大空的报导，简直没法看，于是他想学习西方新闻理论和新闻写作。当时刚好在4月1号愚人节那天，他在《合众国际社》上看到一篇通讯，写的是西点军校的学员学雷锋，他们不仅学雷锋，而且还在学校里立了一个像等等，于是他就采用这个消息来源，事实上，这是西方媒体在愚人节发布的应景“新闻”。
自由撰稿人朱欣欣：“官方媒体很多都是出于中共自己的目的，来选取一些新闻，所谓比如肯定中国，或者中共某方面的成就啊或工作啊，它是借别人的话来夸自己，还有更多的时候是借着西方的一些新闻来贬低西方。”
1月7号，《解放军报》刊文称，雷锋画像曾张贴在西点军校课堂黑板上，想要进行澄清。对此，网友们并不买账。网友“实心眼250”说，人家都说是愚人节的闹剧了，你们还跟着炒剩饭，真丢人。
在中国，雷锋可谓是家喻户晓的人物，几十年来，雷锋就等同于“好人好事”，中共的宣传造假欺骗了大陆无数民众。
有网友说，宣扬乐于助人的品德这个并没有错，但是虚构夸大一个典型就没必要了，谎言一旦拆穿，影响反而更恶劣。
网络作家荆楚：“你看毛泽东发动的学雷锋运动，毛泽东他是绕了一个圈，就是把全国人民玩于股掌之上，为什么号召人民学雷锋呢？因为这个雷锋支持他那些狗屁不通的毛着。”
据了解，仅仅活了22年的雷锋，拍过六七百张照片，雷锋入伍到死亡一共953天，如此高频率的拍照，又是如何办到的呢？据大陆媒体披露，当年为雷锋拍照的张峻和季增回忆，绝大多数都是他们根据当时的政治需要和上级指示创作的。
比如，雷锋在汽车驾驶室里读《毛选》的照片《粮食．武器．方向盘》，以及雷锋握着冲锋枪，戴着棉帽站在一排树前面的照片等等，都是迎合当时的政治需要，摆拍出来的产物。
荆楚：“一个人坐在火车上，你知道这个火车在开了，你要看到窗外的山林啊田野啊，树木啊房屋啊在移动，你就知道火车在开了，现在中宣部的功能，它就是把这个火车的窗户用黑布蒙起来，放一个假的显示屏来显示窗外的景物，在这种情况下，就算把这列火车开进太平洋，坐在车上的人，仍然不知不觉。”
网络作家荆楚表示，欺骗人民是中共维持政权的伎俩。在中国很多真实的新闻是不能报导的，包括异议人士、维权上访、还有信仰迫害等等。
荆楚：“所以那些开发自由门、无界浏览这些翻墙的工具这些人功德无量，为中国的文明进步做了很大的贡献，全国人民应该感谢他们，这些工程师很了不起，就是通过他们的技术行为，让共产党很多的谎言都土崩瓦解。”
中共极权体制严密箝制人民的言论与思想，很多西方国家的网络信息均被封锁。
由美国动态网公司（Dynamic Internet Technology，DIT）所开发的“自由门”，是当前最受中国网民欢迎与广泛使用的破网软件，主要用来突破中共建立的防火长城，帮助中国网民自由上网，即时获得真实讯息。
采访/田净 编辑/黄亿美 后制/李智远
For 34 Years, Fake News Spread about “West Point learning from Lei Feng"
A news report from China in 1981, stated the US West Point
had learned lessons from Lei Feng.
This piece of news has been used by Chinese authorities
to brainwash and deceive the public,
vigorously touting Lei Feng being popular oversea’s.
At the time of the news reports release, it was regarded
as a so-called “glory for the country".
However, 34 years since its release, the reporter responsible
for the article, made a public apology, claiming it merely
an April Fools joke.
It was 34 years ago, a piece of news " West Point learning
from Lei Feng" was extensively spread in China.
Because of this news, many Chinese people visited
West Point looking for traces of the Americans
learning from Lei Feing and taking photos.
West Point repeatedly denied the rumour but in vain,
and the College was stretched to exhaustion.
However, 34 years later, the original author apologised,
and admitted that this was false news.
On Jan. 4, retired Xinhua News Agency reporter
Li Zhurun wrote on his Weibo account:
“On April Fool’s Day of 1981, a foreign news agency reported
that West Point students had learnt from Lei Feng and sang
‘Learning From Lei Feng as A Good Example’.
Without thinking, I wrote it in the article (by my penname Li Xing).
Only until 1997 did I see the article written by Li Shenzhi,
which exposed the lies of my article in the “Reading" magazine,
I then realised that I had taken the bait. “
Li Zhurun admitted that, because the Xinhua News Agency
articles were affected by the Cultural Revolution
with a lot of false and empty reports,
this influenced him in never reading any news reports
at that time.
So he wanted to learn the theory of western news and news writing.
It was on April 1 (April Fool’s day), he saw an article published
by “Associated Press" saying West Point students learn from Lei Feng.
They not only learnt from Lei Feng, but also established
a statute in the school.
He then used the news source, and in fact this was seasonal
“news” published by western media.
Freelance writer Zhu Xinxin: “Many of the official media has
some selected news for the CCP’s own purposes.
So far, the so-called news of affirming China, or recognising
some achievements of certain aspects of CCP etc,
this is to boost its image whilst using other people’s words.
Many times they use some Western
news to belittle the Western world."
On Jan. 7, “Liberation Army Daily" published an article,
saying Lei Feng’s image was displayed in the
classrooms of West Point.
In this regard, Internet users did not agree with such a saying.
Netizen “Shixinyan 250″ said, others recognised
this as a farce, an April Fool,
and yet you still followed a long with this news, its a real shame.
In China, Lei Feng can be described as a public image name
known by most households.
During the past 10 years, Lei Feng is regarded as a good thing.
The constant lies and cheating of CCP, has led people astray.
Some netizens said that to preach morality is not wrong,
but to exaggerate one, there is no need.
Once the lies are exposed and the result might be helpful,
the impact would be more severe.
Internet writer Jin Chu: “You see Chairman Mao launched
the campaign to learn from Lei Feng,
Mao walked around in familiar circles, playing and deceiving
the people. Why did he ask people to learn from Lei Feng?
Because Lei Feng supported those books written by your Dad."
It is understood that although Lei Feng just lived for 22 years,
he left behind him between 600-700 photos.
Lei Feng just stayed in the army for 953 days.
So how could they realise this?
According to mainland media, Zhang Jun and Ji Zeng
recalled the overwhelming majority of the photos
were taken and created according to the prevailing political
needs and directives of superiors.
For example, a photo of Lei Feng in a car reading
“Mao’s articles" titled “food, weapons,
steering wheel."
Lei Feng was also pictured holding assault rifles, wearing a cotton
cap stood at a row of trees.
these were required to meet the prevailing political situation,
and the products were man-made.
Jin Chu: “If a person is sat on a train, you would know that
this train is moving forward.
If you want to see out of the window, you look at the mountains,
the fields, forest, trees and home properties,
they are all moving, then you know the train is also moving.
Now the Central Propaganda Department’s function,
is to cover the train windows with black pieces
of cloth, and put a fake screen displaying
the scenery outside the window.
In this case, even if this train entered the Pacific Ocean,
the person sitting in the car would not know any different"
Internet writer Jin Chu said that deceiving the people
is a means of maintaining the CCP regime.
In China a lot of the real news reports cannot cover the real topics
including dissidents, human rights petitions,
as well as the persecution of religion and so on.
Jing Chu: “So the developers of Freegate and Unbounded
are having limited understanding about these circumvention tools,
but have made a significant contribution to China’s civilisation
and progress. The national people should be grateful to them.
These engineers are great, they are trying to make breakthroughs.
Hence the lies of CCP will be seen and eventually face ruin."
CCP’s communist totalitarian regime has clamped down
on free speech and thoughts of the people.
A lot of the information from Western websites,
are all often blocked.
America Dynamic network company has developed “free door",
which is currently the most popular tool with Chinese netizens,
Its main purpose is to break through the Great Firewall
established by the CCP,
thus helping Chinese netizens freely access websites and
enjoy instant access to real information.
Interview/TianJing Edit/Huang Yimei Post-Production/Li Zhiyuan
