Those are some awesome videos from Mars. Why is there no coverage of this in US media?
So it's much less interesting for eg CNN to plan a big feature for the touch down if they can only count of stock footage.
Communist party centennial is on July 1.
The propaganda ministry have a reserve of "highly patriotic news," which they throw on around big events.
Because you didn't bother to look for it, and just assumed it wasn't there because of your worldview?
I see it in plenty of U.S. media coverage. A quick search turns up CNN as the first result.
The US is currently putting nuclear powered rovers on Mars. That is why there is no huge US media coverage of this story in the US.
Do you think the editors of CNN/Fox/whatever saw this story and decided not to run with it just because the rover's power system is outdated?
Instead you get incredibly hostile and defensive. It’s a great accomplishment for the Chinese but seriously man check your biased worldview at the door.
Do you get just as upset when China doesn’t report on the US gymnastics superiority in the olympics and instead chooses to focus coverage on the Chinese prowess in weightligting, table tennis, and diving?
But what we can't do generate interest. There's only so much shoveling you can do before people not only lose interest, but get repulsed by the attempt.
Shauvinism, exceptionalism, and provincialism.
I guarantee you China isn't doing a spotlight on US athletes. Hell, there are some athletes they are taking away the spotlight.
If it had a mature audience, and not provincial chauvinists that only know/care for their "heroes" in a sports event, then they'd make money "showing spotlights of athletes from random countries" too, like it happens all over the globe.
>I guarantee you China isn't doing a spotlight on US athletes
Don't know about China, but I've seen the Olympic games TV coverage over the years from several countries in Europe, Asia, and the US too, and , and only the US cancels out the rest of the world in their coverage. Others get the full picture, enjoy profiles and full coverage of events involving "not their own" athletes, and so on.
If China does the same, that's their loss, but it's not some standard the US is OK for following...
I think its normal for a countries population to focus mostly on their own team(s) in international competition. Even for the world cup, that's the what it is (mostly).
I don't think its 'provincial' to want your own team to win.
Yes, but only if you look hard enough. For other countries the regular mainstream coverage is like that.
>I don't think its 'provincial' to want your own team to win.
That's a different thing.
How much coverage of US missions made it into Chinese media outlets? Significantly less than the coverage of US missions in US media outlets. Why is that? Chinese propaganda.
For the same reasons, the coverage of Chinese missions will be downplayed in US media.
You can't downplay US missions and then ask why the US downplays yours. You already know why. Because of the propaganda war.