World Media Follow Beijing’s Lead in Xinjiang Reporting
This is a very interesting article from The Epoch Times and I have observed the same. It seems the world’s media is following, seemingly without questions, China’s state-controlled media in reporting the Xinjiang violence.
Excerpt:
But media experts and Uyghur activists say that China’s state-controlled media are working to frame the story in favor of the regime, a strategy one Hong Kong-based Chinese media expert calls “Control 2.0.”
“By getting the information out, officials can get the ‘peripheral media’ (influential portal news sites, and commercial newspapers) to work for them,” writes David Bandurski editor of the China Media Project Web site in his analysis of the earlier riots in Shishou.
“These media feed off of the original Xinhua reports, amplifying their effect. Those same reports, with only slight permutations in many cases, become AFP, Reuters, and AP reports.”
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