China’s state-run media are notorious for their false reporting and blatant propaganda to spread the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) agenda. Whereas ordinary citizens can only get their “news” from these sources and whatever information passes through the Party’s strict censorship, where do the CCP’s high-level officials turn to for real information?
When Zhu Rongji, former premier, made a speech at Tsinghua University during the centennial celebration of the university’s founding on April 22, 2011, he said that after he retired, he watched the CCP’s state-run broadcaster CCTV at seven o’clock after dinner every evening. “I simply watch to see what nonsense it says,” he said.
