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An essential news junkie’s guide to media terminology

THIS ESSAY CONSIDERS the topic of mouthpieces in "the global west". First, definitions. What is a mouthpiece? Where the Mainstream Western Media (MWM) is a primary source of our understanding of life on Earth, it is not difficult to find an answer to this question. Although slanted, it will be a clear answer. You can…

March 15, 20240Comments ByRichard Cullen

News Opinion

How NOT to write about Hong Kong and mainland China

The western mainstream media's brutally negative narrative about Hong Kong has spontaneously caused the emergence of a range of voices energized to stand up and speak out for the community, says Richard Cullen. AFTER ENCOUNTERING a fresh set of unvaried, China-thumping articles in the New York Times, I sometimes wonder if others, like me, mentally…

October 5, 20230Comments ByRichard Cullen

Features

Intriguing tale of China’s speedy pandemic recovery

No jurisdiction has managed a flawless COVID response, says Richard Cullen. But China, despite its imperfect COVID management experience, did better than any other major jurisdiction and, in fact, displayed many examples of early-best-practice unseen elsewhere. Exasperatingly, the West found, yet again, that it there is much it can learn from China - and then,…

May 8, 20230Comments ByRichard Cullen

China news News

Social channels give alternative to media misinformation

A FORMER BBC reporter tried to politicize the tragic recent fire in Beijing by claiming that it was being covered up – there was no press coverage or videos or chat posts, Vivian Wu announced on Twitter. Except people in China are quite smart now. They quickly found lots of references to the fire in…

April 26, 20230Comments ByNury Vittachi

Opinion

China-bashing is off the charts, becoming mass hysteria

The campaign to demonize China has become extreme, even hysterical Yet the international media seems united in the presenting a false narrative The position that it is okay to stop a developing nation's rise is clearly unethical The world must tone down the Western media to let other voices be heard A KEY…

February 22, 20230Comments ByChandran Nair

News

Despairing China teacher encouraged by social voices

A U.S. UNIVERSITY LECTURER who expressed despair at the impossibility of fighting negative media “framing” of China got a nice surprise today. A range of supportive voices on social media encouraged her not to quit. A few hours ago, Dr Lin Zhang of the University of New Hampshire posted a sad lament on Twitter, saying…

September 20, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

‘Yes, we’re propagandists,’ say western journalists, as public confidence falls

Majority of U.S. reporters oppose ‘balanced’ news, preferring to take sides Confidence in mainstream media plummets in the U.S. and worldwide Massive financing enables industrial-level vilification of the Chinese TRUST IN THE MAINSTREAM media has collapsed, a series of new studies show. Western journalists openly see their role as propagandists for their beliefs, in contrast…

August 15, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi