New data shows limiting journalists' access to China is having its intended effect, ErykBagshaw writes
In a year when China has never been more prominent across the Australian media landscape, the figures show the impact of having fewer correspondents on the ground and the effectiveness of the Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda units.
It notched up 1163 quotes in Australian media outlets over the past year, three hundred more than Zhao, the most high-profile wolf warrior Foreign Ministry spokesman at the top of the list. Xi had 769. There’s another piece on how China’s rural poor defeated COVID-19 and an essay on how 1.5 million Chinese students have started at international universities from their bedrooms.
“It’s amazing to see how the Western journalists love to see more trouble, more unrest, social unrest in China, where my party, my government, my people, look forward to a peaceful affluence in society.”
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