The world gushes with praise for China's peace proposal, especially Russia and Belarus, but there are a few others
-Russia firing weapons=seeking peace
-NATO supplying weapons=seeking war
-Ohio rots
-Earthy Xi shines bright
China chastises the US for supplying Ukraine, but day after day leads with fiery shots of Russian ammo in action.
(Action shots courtesy of Kremlin)
Russia keeps pounding away, for peace.
Why does Ukraine even think about going up against big guns like this when they can just surrender?
Russia warmly welcomes China's peace proposal!
(they probably helped write it)
China's generous peace initiative is not properly appreciated by Zelensky. Hmm. Why not?
A rare CCTV shot of Kiev
Ukraine resists...
CCTV likes to recycle less-than-impressive shots of Ukraine troops fighting back, most often depicted hiding and terribly outgunned.
Thoughtful Russians and Germans agree.
NATO brings nothing but terror.
Germans want "freedom, heating, bread
instead of guns, wars and death"
"US and NATO are hidden hand behind so many wars..."
Russia: Ha ha! Western sanctions don't hurt us at all
CCTV: The sanctions are so unfair! High prices!
No heat! Cancelled flights! Europeans aren't buying Chinese goods!!!
"Biden screwed up" says Seymour Hersh, leaning back, all smug and giddy in that massive soft Stratolounger recliner of his
"What Hersh says is logical, the US government's said as much before."
Zimbabwe and Zambia weigh in:
(coincidentally echoing CCTV talking points)
-US, which covets EU's energy market, is hiding behind silence on Nord Stream
-The Russia-Ukraine conflict drags on because US and NATO keep supplying Ukraine with weapons
Compare and contrast how CCTV depicts Russia and the US
The toxic train wreck in Ohio has been daily fare for domestic viewers in China for almost a month...because China cares!
CCTV's ode to Xi naturally opened the news, but it's of such dubious news value I saved it for last.
fasten your seatbelt!
The horse was apparently unaware, or unimpressed, that it was in the presence of the man
What joy a brush with greatness can instill!
the philosopher king
The news doesn't end here, but I'm gonna end it here because I think CCTV is losing it's mind.
Zai Jian!
The chairman talked to me!
Before he left, he asked if I had any difficulties, because the government, at every level, is ready to be of service.
No problem, I said. I am extraordinarily happy!
Everyone knows the chairman is a lofty philosopher beaming with empathy, a scholar, a poet, and an engineer of the soul...
....but how many knew he was such a good cook!
He came into my house, started poking around the kitchen and stirred the stew!
Guess who's coming to dinner?
-Narcissism in manic overdrive
-China's saviour barges into people's homes, points at things, touches things, eats and leaves
-NATO=war
-Russia=peace
-Nord Stream bubbling
-Ohio is a train wreck
Top story is about...Xi Jinping, a bosom friend who really cares
CCTV still echoes Russian media
Russian Defense Ministry footage still dominates
Still no invasion, just a special military operation.
Medvedev says Russia will defeat Ukraine
To support Ukraine is to fan the flames
CCTV viewers have been treated to Russian pyrotechnics at the top of the world news for a year.
The rockets are only shown going up...
...nary a glimpse of the people, schools, trains, factories, and apartment buildings they hit on the way down.
CCTV FOLLIES 2.23 Lei Feng lives on
Xi, nostalgic for his tortured childhood, whips up a Maoist style campaign.
-New Lei Feng spirit for New Era
-Dusting park benches
-Tractors on parade
-Russia pulls out of arms talks, flaunts big missile
-But it's all the fault of the US
"Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed the importance of gaining a deep understanding of the Lei Feng spirit so that the spirit will shine more brightly in the new era!" says skilled sycophant and personality cult booster Cai Qi
As Xi says, "It has been proved that no matter how times change, the spirit of Lei Feng will always be relevant"
"Xi underlined the importance of earnestly grasping the contemporary connotations of the Lei Feng spirit, pointing to exemplary role of Party members and officials"
CCTV FOLLIES 2.22 Making the world safe for dictatorship
-Full court press against US perfidy continues.
-Putin and holy Russia get glowing friend-of-China accolades.
-Greeks against US imperialism!
-If Sachs says so
-When Xi presides, politburo scribes take note and take notes
More unabashedly pro-Russian coverage of the special military operation here shown carefully targeting enemy ammunition dumps.
Russia can shoot and bomb day after day with complete media impunity in China, but CCTV won't forgive the US for it's aid to Ukraine.
The US shouldn't meddle. It's so unfair!
"He's a poet-warrior in the classic sense. I mean sometimes he'll, uh, well, you'll say hello to him, right?
...And he'll just walk right by you, and he won't even
notice you..."
"I'm a little man, I'm a little man, he's, he's a great man. I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas -- I mean... "
"The world today is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century, he said, adding that to solve outstanding contradictions and problems facing the mankind it is necessary to rely on material means to overcome difficulties and rely on the strength of the spirit to rectify mind"