News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Debtors in China Shamed on Highway Billboard Featuring Their Faces and Names. Parent comment

Re:Debtors in China Shamed on Highway Billboard Featuring Th... by Bucephalus355 on Saturday May 05, 2018 @06:47AM (#17001260)
SCMP is a prestigious newspaper and the “newspaper of record” for Hong Kong.

However, recently it was bought out by Alibaba, which is of course a Chinese company. The articles still don’t seem that much pro-Chinese, however this does have some sinister overtones for the future, and fits in well with the Chinese strategy of steady expansion / soft subtle influence of foreign govs and institutes.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Debtors in China Shamed on Highway Billboard Featuring Th... by brisance on Saturday May 05, 2018 @12:33PM (#17002509)
SCMP has hired a few former Straits Times journalists with an ax to grind with Singapore, and the articles they churn out have a decidedly anti-Singapore, pro-China bias. The messaging became more strident ever since it got bought by Alibaba.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Debtors in China Shamed on Highway Billboard Featuring Th... by philsnow on Saturday May 05, 2018 @12:29PM (#17002490)
as long as they keep publishing nominally critical articles, they can also pick and choose among the available news stories and over time start burying the worst and even becoming a propaganda arm. "look even the SCMP says things are getting better, and they're the critical ones"
[ Parent | on HN ]