CCTV FOLLIES 11/12 Kherson edition
A masterclass in burying the big story of the day.
Flood the zone:
-Xi sez
-20th Congress
-Scientists cheer China
-Snow falls
Russia: Kherson redeployment
Ukraine gets 7 seconds air time
US causes poverty, inflation, darkness in Europe
"Xi delivers written remarks at international forum on hybrid rice assistance"
That's the top story.
The soaring spirit of Xi's 20th congress echoes everywhere!
The suave and cosmopolitan Foreign Ministry Wang Yi shares the good tidings. When he repeats Xi Jinping's instructions, followers take notes.
It's snowing in parts of China.
Lots of friendly snow pictures
Chinese scientists shout slogans and applaud China's accomplishments in space.
China gets designated the country in the world with the most wetland cities!
And now the world news...
CCTV goes direct to Russia's Defense Ministry in Moscow for its update on Kherson.
What's going on?
Russia has successfully redeployed to the other bank.
Russia continues to aim its precision attacks strictly on Ukraine military infrastructure.
Russia is intercepting and taking out HIMARS missiles
Ukraine says it has entered Kherson city.
Blink and it's over. (total segment, 7 seconds)
But the weird map lingers in the eye.
CCTV is still using this insulting map that denies Ukraine's borders, as if it's all territory up for grabs.
Kherson is the red spot.
...Mid-sentence, the news jumps to European woes caused by the perfidious US sanctions on Russia
Europe's troubles can all be traced to the US.
The US is trying to shore up its declining hegemony.
An international "personage" complains that the US is making Europe hate Russia.
It's not fair!
-The US pushing Europe into a new dark age
-UN human rights expert criticizes US one-sided sanctions.
-Look at what they've done to Syria...
US human rights abuses start at home.
Look at how poor American children are used illegally in graveyard shifts.
(courtesy of CCTV's journalism colleagues at CBS and ABC)
And that's it folks, the day Kherson was liberated.
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