CCTV FOLLIES 2.4 The art of the cover-up

No news of Xi, no news of that big weather balloon (conspicuous by its absence) -Lengthy 2022 Olympics recap -Flowers blossom across China -US fans flames -US "dirty hands" -US: fire and ice

This is the one thing you won’t see on CCTV News today

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CCTV's in-depth US news segment today is all fire and ice but no balloon

China's domestic news is entirely devoid of news content. A lengthy re-cap of last year's victory Olympics and some gushing about springtime in China

At 3:39AM Beijing time, (2:39PM EST) the balloon that CCTV could not bring itself to mention on the authoritative evening news was removed from the stratosphere.

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