{"id":540422,"date":"2021-05-25T17:20:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T21:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=540422"},"modified":"2021-05-25T17:20:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T21:20:25","slug":"major-media-outlets-continue-to-receive-millions-from-chinese-propaganda-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/major-media-outlets-continue-to-receive-millions-from-chinese-propaganda-front\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Media Outlets Continue To Receive Millions From Chinese Propaganda Front"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fmajor-media-outlets-continue-to-receive-millions-from-chinese-propaganda-front%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=540422&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--><p>A Chinese Communist Party-controlled news outlet paid major newspapers and magazines over $1.95 million between November and April to run advertisements stylized as news stories, according to a Justice Department disclosure filed Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Time Magazine received $700,000 from the outlet, China Daily, for \u201cadvertisement expenses\u201d during the six-month time period, the <a href=\"https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/3457-Supplemental-Statement-20210524-34.pdf\">filing<\/a> revealed. The Chinese propaganda outlet also paid a combined $1.26 million for advertisements in The Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, The Globe and Mail and the Financial Times during the timeframe, according to the filing.<\/p>\n<p>China Daily spent an additional $883,000 with newspapers across the U.S. for printing expenses, the filing shows.<\/p>\n<p>The filing reveals that China Daily has increased its advertising spending substantially over the past six months. The propaganda outlet had previously <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/06\/08\/chinese-propaganda-china-daily-washington-post\/\">reported<\/a> to the Justice Department spending $881,000 for advertising campaigns in western newspapers and magazines between May 2020 and October 2020, and another $759,000 for ads <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/11\/22\/china-daily-propaganda-wall-street-journal\/\">between<\/a> November 2019 and April 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The Monday filing was first reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/chinese-propaganda-outlet-paid-millions-to-american-newspapers-and-magazines\/\">The Washington Free Beacon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation that China Daily boosted its advertising spending in western newspapers and magazines comes weeks after the International Federation of Journalists warned that China is using its vast media influence to spread narratives portraying China in the best possible light.<\/p>\n<p>The report specifically addressed China\u2019s distribution of China Daily advertorials in newspapers across the world. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/10\/new-york-times-columnist-ben-smith-propaganda-china-pushing-paid-ads\/\">(RELATED: NYT\u2019s Columnist Worries About China\u2019s Propaganda, But The Paper Made A Killing From Ads Pushing Chinese Propaganda)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7166457\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"34\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7166457\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7166457\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Zhao-Lijian-scaled-e1617909252583.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian takes a question at the daily media briefing in Beijing on April 8, 2020. (Photo by GREG BAKER \/ AFP) (Photo by GREG BAKER\/AFP via Getty Images)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Zhao-Lijian-scaled-e1617909252583.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Zhao-Lijian-scaled-e1617909252583-279x120.jpg 279w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Zhao-Lijian-scaled-e1617909252583-620x266-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Zhao-Lijian-scaled-e1617909252583-768x330-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Zhao-Lijian-scaled-e1617909252583-1536x660-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Zhao-Lijian-scaled-e1617909252583-2048x880-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7166457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian takes a question at the daily media briefing in Beijing on April 8, 2020. (Photo by GREG BAKER\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Other pro-democracy groups such as <a href=\"https:\/\/freedomhouse.org\/report\/special-report\/2020\/beijings-global-megaphone\">Freedom House<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/sites\/default\/files\/research\/docs\/chineseinfluence_americaninterests_fullreport_web.pdf\">Hoover Institution<\/a> have called attention to the China Daily inserts in warnings about the Chinese government\u2019s attempts to push propaganda through American news outlets.<\/p>\n<p>China Daily is one of many Chinese Communist Party-operated news organizations with a foothold in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese foreign agents reported spending nearly $64 million in propaganda operations in the U.S. in 2020, a nearly six-fold increase over the $10 million reported in 2016, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/11\/china-propaganda-us-foreign-agent-spending\/\">Axios<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Caller News Foundation previously <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/06\/08\/chinese-propaganda-china-daily-washington-post\/\">reported<\/a> that China Daily had paid nearly $19 million to major American media outlets for advertising and printing expenses between November 2016 and April 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Former outlets that ran China Daily advertorials include The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, Justice Department filings show.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese Communist Party-controlled news outlet paid major newspapers and magazines over $1.95 million between November and April to run advertisements stylized as news stories, according to a Justice Department &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313014,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Zhao-Lijian-scaled-e1617909252583.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Major Media Outlets Continue To Receive Millions From Chinese Propaganda Front","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Zhao-Lijian-scaled-e1617909252583.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Major Media Outlets Continue To Receive Millions From Chinese Propaganda Front","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540422","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}