Why you would publish overt propaganda like that even in a lift-out defies belief.David wrote:For anyone who doesn't know, for several years they were publishing an eight-page lift-out every month directly regurgitating CCP propaganda. They made it clear that it didn't reflect their editorial view and that it was more like an advertorial, for what it's worth, but they still chose to run it in their newspaper. Apparently The Washington Post, The New York Times and other newspapers have done the same. You can find out more about it here: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/d ... xi-jinping
Media Watch also did a segment on it at the time: https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episo ... da/9972966
Stui, what do you think lol
If heads don't roll/haven't rolled over that any moral high ground they claim is a farce. That's as shameless as any handout Murdoch would take, and totally undermines the critique of these rags versus the Murdoch media and its support of environmental destruction, climate denial, billionaire tax cuts, Brexit, Johnson, Trump, etc.
I still haven't forgiven the NYT for its support of the invasion of Iraq or The Guardian for its mollycoddling of Lexiters and Corbyn the Clueless, and I trust Jeff Bezos about as much as I trust Trump, so I'm not entirely surprised. But you still need them to be as above-board as possible to counteract the fist-waving 'lamestream media' hysteria of the Khmer Rouge Hats.
We already know anyone can be bought. But this is particularly brazen and hypocritical. How you would let a reference to the South China Sea or the cult worship of Xi slip through is beyond comprehension.