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Dec 19 β€’ 17 tweets β€’ 10 min read
It's amazing the 180 Chinese state media have done on their Covid messaging of late.

Someone should make a short thread of interesting quotes.

Oh. WAIT. *cues music*.. πŸ§΅πŸ‘‡
"Omicron is not flu."

... until it was.
Seems topical. But it's actually from April.
"No lying flat. No laissez-faire."

"What? This bonfire of the regulations? No. This isn't laissez-faire.."
Then: "Why did the US stop updating covid data? What is it afraid of? 😠"

Now: "It's unfair to collapse the covid conversation into numbers.. πŸ˜’"
Cancelling zero covid will spark a "tsunami of infections".

.. Wonder what that looks like? πŸ€”
"Why China MUST stick with zero covid"

"..getting cold feet is flinching at the final attempt.. The result may prove catastrophic." 🎯
Hu Xijin calls giving up the covid fight " betrayal to all mankind", treating it as flu "a huge mistake"

.. until he doesn't.
Also: Impressively wrong.
Considering the news had already leaked.
"1 million Covid infections shows US no super power"

.. so China today would be..?
"Trump is calling for restarting the economy, regardless that more people will be infected... this is absurd."

(.. until it isn't πŸ‘‰)
"How many people were hoodwinked into believing Omicron was the perfect pandemic offramp and thus threw caution to the winds?"

..worries China Daily's token Texan Marxist, in May. I'm sure he's equally annoyed with Beijing today~
US vaccines bad πŸ˜‘
China vaccines good πŸ˜†

🌟Fun Fact 1: These two stories ran within *40 hours* of eachother~
🌟Fun Fact 2: Efficacy rates πŸŽ‰
2020: CCTV mocks US for fast tracking vaccines
2022: China still waiting on mRNA
"Disrespect for science hurts Covid battle"

.. though TCM?
But, hey. #Victory πŸ†
.. any more..? πŸ–₯

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More from @MrSeanHaines

Dec 7
Dope, who didn't breathe a word about the protests, aside from a few deleted tweets, until he could copy MoFA's words, uses a nationalist rag that answers directly to China's Ministry of Propaganda to complain about censorship.

Stop. Stop. The IRONY. πŸ˜‚ Image
"Andy was offered the job as a full-time journalist"
No he wasn't. πŸ™„

Note he only claims this in English..
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Reminder. When 5 police bundled a real journalist to the ground for covering the protestsβ€”the most physical act of censorship you can findβ€”Andy was a few blocks away, in his bedroom, deleting his own own tweets.
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πŸŽ‰ Exciting news everyone πŸŽ‰

China state media network CCTV quietly released their annual Social Responsibility report on Saturday, where they apologised for "shortcomings"β€”but committed to "do a good job of Leader propaganda"

Don't worry. I read it, so you don't have to~ πŸ˜‰ Image
So. You might have noticed, CCTV staff have spent recent years grumbling they somehow.. *gasp*.. take instructions from Beijing, or lack editorial independence.

Thus. You'd expect them to delicately tip-toe around political affiliation, right? Media integrity, yes..? ImageImageImageImage
.. Nope.

President Xi pops up literally in Point 1: Sentence 1 πŸ€—

("Always insisted". Fun Fact: CCTV first aired in 1958 when Xi was 5) Image
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Nov 5, 2021
This guy gets it...

It's sad. When I first started working in Chinese state media, was shocked at the low level, lack of professional skills, lack of wider intl knowledge.

And staff trying to impress bosses, who are entombed in old era thinking.

It's all so insular..
The vast majority of staff I met had no media experience. Hired as they'd done an English degree, or a Masters abroad.

(Aside from presenters - who nearly all came from a single course at Communications Uni, Beijing where you're taught to read a teleprompter and look pretty.)
Think about that..

+no media experience
+no production experience
+no degrees based on critical thought
+practically zero have commercial media experience i.e. Experience of working in a results-based environment

.. But you DO get points if you're a Party member. So.. ✨
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