‘Black propaganda’ by the US hurts itself: observers

During the US government information war against China, the media and think tanks from other Western countries will also actively cooperate with the US, Chinese experts said, noting that these forces are also common weapons of the West for ideological confrontation.

“It’s like being manipulated by an invisible hand,” said Lü, adding that the US government has a way to manipulate its domestic media’s overseas reports, and that its “invisible hand” can even control media of its allied countries.

“A job of US Deputy National Security Advisor is to coordinate foreign media coverage on all the US governments, and we have no idea about what specific measures have been used. It’s worthy to point out that the US media are independent in domestic news coverage, but they can form a concerted action in overseas news,” he said.

In fact, the public has limited knowledge on national affairs no matter in the US or other countries. Media should be responsible as media workers are elites who have more information, and if media distort the truth, the public will be biased, said Lü.

Shi Anbin, a professor at Tsinghua University’s School of Journalism and Communication, said in his newly published article that in lack of “hard news” such as field reports and in-depth investigation, US mainstream media adopted a politicized and emotional framework instead of a scientific and professional prospect, which distracted its people’s attention from the risks of the virus.

“The US has already become the center of the COVID-19 pandemic when The New York Times and The Washington Post published investigative reports on the US’ lost month for testing COVID-19,” Shi wrote.

In an interview with the Global Times on Saturday, He used “black propaganda”

– a term in communication to describe the Western media’s attack to China.

He told the Global Times that since World War II, the US has seen a prosperous development generally. Its relatively isolated location in terms of geography makes its people care more about internal affairs, and have limited knowledge on the outside world. “On the contrary, Chinese people know more about the US than the US people know about China as a traditional Chinese idiom said that ‘To my concern are the affairs of households, country and the world,’ and in the last four decades, Chinese people have been learning advanced experience from the Western countries,” said He.