{"id":1505851,"date":"2022-06-06T18:04:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T22:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1505851"},"modified":"2022-06-06T18:05:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T22:05:01","slug":"voice-of-a-nation-usa-today-takes-hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars-from-ccp-mouthpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/voice-of-a-nation-usa-today-takes-hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars-from-ccp-mouthpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Voice of a Nation\u2019: USA Today Takes Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars From CCP Mouthpiece\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvoice-of-a-nation-usa-today-takes-hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars-from-ccp-mouthpiece%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1505851&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>A mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist Party paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to advertise in <em>USA Today<\/em>, which claims it &#8220;represents the voice of an entire nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>China Daily<\/em>\u00a0has since October 2021 spent $287,500 advertising in <em>USA Today<\/em>, according to filings with the Department of Justice. The iconic American newspaper is the latest news outlet to partner with the Beijing-controlled newspaper, which in recent years has <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/chinese-propaganda-outlet-paid-millions-to-american-newspapers-and-magazines\/\">paid outlets<\/a> like <em>Time<\/em>, the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>, and <em>Foreign Policy<\/em> magazine millions of dollars to publish articles as part of Beijing&#8217;s aggressive propaganda campaign in the West.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>USA Today<\/em>\u2013<em>China Daily<\/em> partnership comes amid heightened scrutiny over the Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s efforts to shape Americans&#8217; views of Chinese culture and its domestic and foreign policy. Newspapers like the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>, the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>, and the\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/nyt-quietly-scrubs-chinese-propaganda\/\">ended<\/a> advertising deals with <em>China Daily<\/em> because of foreign influence. Human-rights groups <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/foreign-policy-ramps-up-advertising-deal-with-chinese-propaganda-outlet\/\">have criticized<\/a> American news companies for publishing <em>China Daily<\/em> articles that tout the Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s policies in Tibet, Hong Kong, and other disputed regions.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. government has also cracked down on <em>China Daily<\/em> and other Chinese state-controlled news agencies. The Justice Department in 2020 required <em>China Daily<\/em>\u00a0to disclose details of its payments to American companies, showing more than $19 million spent on advertising and printing costs since November 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The influx of advertising revenue is a much-needed boost for <em>USA Today<\/em>, which last year saw the steepest readership decline of any major newspaper\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poynter.org\/business-work\/2021\/the-biggest-us-papers-lost-20-of-their-daily-print-circulation-during-the-pandemic-british-media-site-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 62 percent dropoff<\/a> in circulation from 2020 to 2021. <em>Time<\/em> and the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>, two other companies working with <em>China Daily<\/em>, have also seen declines in subscriptions and advertising revenue. <em>China Daily<\/em> between November 2021 and April 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/3457-Supplemental-Statement-20220527-36.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spent<\/a> $1,618,143 on advertising. The newspaper paid $649,603 to <em>Time<\/em>, $315,540 to <em>Financial Times<\/em>, $306,000 to the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>, and $117,000 to <em>Foreign Policy<\/em>, according to its filings with the Justice Department.<\/p>\n<p><em>USA Today<\/em> did not respond to questions about where it has published <em>China Daily<\/em> content, but American news companies have typically republished <em>China Daily<\/em> articles online or in physical copies of their publications. <em>Time<\/em>, for example, publishes <em>China Daily<\/em> articles at a &#8220;paid content&#8221; section of its website, as well as in a printed insert in its magazine called &#8220;ChinaWatch.&#8221; <em>Time<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/iconic-american-magazine-fails-to-disclose-ccp-funding-in-latest-print-edition\/\">has not always disclosed<\/a> that the Chinese government paid for the printed inserts, which are designed to look like other news articles in the magazine.<\/p>\n<p><em>USA Today<\/em> also did not respond to questions about potential conflicts of interest in its <em>China Daily<\/em> arrangement. But the newspaper insists its advertisers do not influence its news coverage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will not blur the line between advertising and editorial content. We will provide appropriate disclosures, exercise transparency, and avoid actual or implicit commercial endorsements by our journalists,&#8221; reads <em>USA Today<\/em>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/cm.usatoday.com\/ethical-conduct\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">code of ethical conduct<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When sponsorships of news are appropriate, we will not allow them to determine, change, or restrict content.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist Party paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to advertise in USA Today, which claims it &#8220;represents the voice of an entire nation.&#8221; China Daily\u00a0has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}