This is frightening because the US has no answer. Our once greaty world level media, independent of government, have dwindled to insignificance. The voices of CBS, NBC, and CNN are now less meaningful then Fox or Disney. The BBC? Stodgy News with ohso Brit TV. Meanwhile Russia’s RT with its ties to Trump and the Gulf Arabs voice Al Jazeerah provide truly impressive (if propagandistic) world class media. As for the Voice of America?
(NewsAsia, SHANGHAI): China Central Television (CCTV), Beijing’s largest and most important TV network, said it will launch a new global media platform at the stroke of New Year’s Day to help re-brand China overseas.
The new multilingual media cluster will have six TV channels, a video newsletter agency and a new media agency and will see the original CCTV News channel renamed as China Global Television Network, the network said on its website on Friday night.
President Xi Jinping said in February state media must tell China’s story to the world better and become internationally influential, adding that onshore portals must follow the party line and promote “positive propaganda as the main theme”.
(Reporting by Engen Tham in Shanghai and Ryan Woo in Beijing; Editing by Eric Meijer)