The level of propaganda (censorship and sponsorship) of the West (BBC, CNN, etc., if that could be called propaganda) is nowhere comparable to the level of propaganda in China (CGTN, CCTV, etc.), and this is the reason that generally the West has free press while China does not.

See my other comment [1] for some pointers to the level of propaganda (censorship and sponsorship) in China (e.g., police tracking journalists and deleting photos for no reasons, sponsoring YouTubers with special arrangements), which clearly has no equivalent in the West.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29685703

This is why people generally trust BBC, but not media in China.