Thread by @jinpeili

CCTV FOLLIES 3.3 An interview with Seymour Hersh
CGTN, the external propaganda arm of CCTV, finally snagged a Hersh interview. It was featured prominently on Xinwen Lianbo, leading the world news.

The part of the interview broadcast is included in the following series of screen shots. Hersh's answers are provided in voice-over and subtitles but no English.

The original CGTN report had Hersh speaking in his own voice, so it is established that he said
"the Ukraine War."
CGTN probably vacillated on this, but went with a fair translation, but for protocol reasons, put the word "war" in scare quotes.

CCTV has adhered religiously to the Kremlin line. Invasion never mentioned and war is a prohibited term.
It's the Special Military Operation, or as CCTV has come to call it, the "situation" or the "Russia-Ukraine conflict.

CCTV seems to think it is being neutral by presenting Russia's brutal invasion as a conflict that erupted spontaneously.

In fact, following the big scoop of the Hersh interview, CCTV cuts right away to Sergei Lavrov to demonstrate the supposed credibility of the claim.

(Lavrov got laughed at in India for saying Russia fought to "stop the war that was launched against us"

Lavrov is not always a convincing liar, but he is good at playing indignant.
"It is unacceptable that the West should get away with covering up the truth!"

To further buttress Hersh's claim, CCTV turns it gaze to Germany where there have been voices critical of the US, especially on Nord Stream. A member of the Bundestag demands that Chancellor Olaf Scholz stop being passive and press Washington for an answer.

CCTV brings in a French scholar to second the motion. "The US goal is to split Russia from Europe."

This is the crown jewel of CCTV Hersh reports to date which have been aired daily since February 8.

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CGTN's posting on "Frontline" perpetuates the myth of a neutral conflict that absolves Russia of both invasion and war.

Hersh: “If they start this war…
(ruguoewuchongtufashengdehua)
is rendered
—if a Russia-Ukraine conflict should occur—

Hersh: "two weeks before the war..."
is changed to
"Two weeks before the Russia-Ukraine conflict occurred..."

"The president himself had said, publicly in February, in a meeting with Chancellor Scholz of Germany, 2 weeks before the ACTUAL INVASION BY RUSSIA…I think the INVASION was around the 24th.”

is

"2 weeks before the Russia-Ukraine conflict occurred, Biden and Chancellor Scholz-"