CCTV FOLLIES 3.29 ELEMENTS OF PROPAGANDA

How to "read" the evening news: Personality cult -Politburo protocol -Good domestic news -Beautiful China -Russia and friends -Bad NATO! -EU slumps and strikes!- Japan protests! -USA in steep decline!

A personality cult bestows upon a mundane politician the aura of an emperor. Emperors don’t take meetings; it is to them to grant an audience, if they so deign to do. And an audience needs an audience. And the audience, even if they are American businessmen unaccustomed to the kowtow must applaud loud, long and reverentially. Above can be seen proud, free-thinking CEOs serving as unwitting props to a cleverly choreographed authoritarian personality cult.