CCTV FOLLIES 10.18 GAZA, TAKING SIDES AND VIDEOTAPE

The party line shores up whatever partial truths, hidden truths and outright lies best serve Xi Jinping's vision of the world -Palestine can do no wrong -Israel can do no right -US at fault, as always

The evening news of October 18 offers a good case study of how propaganda gets hoisted on its own petard. CCTV is not allowed to tell the truth about China, that’s why it’s called propaganda. Without a hint of shame, and with only the most feeble attempt to subscribe to journalistic standards, the party line narrative is cultivated, curated and shoved down viewer’s throats. Likewise, even CCTV’s foreign news segments, dependent mostly on wire services and Western reports, find it harder and harder to tell the truth about events that don’t fit the increasingly warped master narrative.