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s they sifted through resumes, the team recruiting for the new London hub of China’s state-run broadcaster had an enviable problem: far, far too many candidates. Almost 6,000 people were applying for just 90 jobs “reporting the news from a Chinese perspective”. Even the simple task of reading through the heap of applications would take almost two months.

Inside China’s audacious global propaganda campaign – Dec 17, 2018
For western journalists, demoralised by endless budget cuts, China Global Television Network presents an enticing prospect, offering competitive salaries to work in state-of-the-art purpose-built studios in Chiswick, west London. CGTN – as the international arm of China Central Television (CCTV) was rebranded in 2016 – is the most high-profile component of China’s rapid media expansion across the world, whose goal, in the words of President Xi Jinping, is to “tell China’s story well”. In practice, telling China’s story well looks a lot like serving the ideological aims of the state.

June 9, 2020 – Business Standard

China Daily, an English-language newspaper controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, has paid more than $4.6 million to The Washington Post and nearly $6 million to The Wall Street Journal

One of China’s main propaganda outlets has paid American newspapers nearly $19 million for advertising and printing expenses over the past four years, The Daily Caller reported citing documents filed with the US Justice Department.

China Daily, an English-language newspaper controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, has paid more than $4.6 million to The Washington Post and nearly $6 million to The Wall Street Journal since November 2016, the documents showed.

WSJ ad revenue roughly 1,500 – 1,800 million during that period.

US media outlets received millions of dollars from China to sell its propaganda: Report
WION Web Team
NEW DELHI Published: Jul 08, 2021

According to sources, Time Magazine received $700,000, the Financial Times $371,577, Foreign Policy Magazine $291,000, the Los Angeles Times $272,000, and other notable media outlets received more than $1 million.  …

Gee, I wonder who gave them that idea?

2020 financial activity for US super PACs
2,276
number of super PACs
$3,427,543,995.oo
total raised by super PACs
$2,128,047,603.oo
total spent by super PACs

I’m not saying the Chinese are nice guys, but this advertising thing began before Covid 19 and has a great deal to do with other issues.  Might even say it’s a defensive reaction to other’s dirty tricks.  But in a world where everyone is stabbing everyone else in the back, can there really be any good guys left standing?

So back to finding the truth of COVID 19’s origins, I’ll wait til the community of serious medical scientists have sorted through the evidence and share their findings.

If you come across something written by actual experts in the field, please do share.