BuzzFeed founder Ben Smith’s announcement last week that his Semafor “global news platform” would be partners with a Chinese Communist Party think tank is just the latest example of Beijing’s relentless attempts to gain influence over U.S. media.
last week that his Semafor “global news platform” would be partners with a Chinese Communist Party think tank is just the latest example of Beijing’s relentless attempts to gain influence over U.S. media.
Ben Smith, editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News, hands out free copies of a BuzzFeed News newspaper outside the Union Square subway station, March 6, 2019 in New York City. China does not always have to fork over cash to get the editorial space it craves. Chinese Communist Party apparatchiks frequently pen opinion pieces for American and European papers, exploiting a spirit of “openness” to “divergent opinions” that China would never be foolish enough to grant foreigners with its own state media.
Marlow pointed out that China uses its economic leverage over American media corporations to influence coverage, a practice known as “
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