Commodification of news under capitalist model creates barriers to access in form of paywalls, ads, data harvesters, and so on. Western media, driven by profit imperatives, increasingly treats news as a luxury good rather than a public utility. Paywalls lock critical reporting behind subscription fees, while ad-driven revenue models bombard readers with intrusive trackers and disruptive marketing prioritizing profit over access.
On the other hand, Chinese state-supported media model sidesteps these barriers by decoupling news accessibility from commercial pressures. I find myself reading outlets like Global Times or China Daily precisely because they provide clean, accessible articles without the junk. These platforms ensure information reaches a wider demographic, including marginalized groups who are priced out of Western media ecosystems. The structural advantage here is undeniable because Chinese media is unburdened by the need to “sell” audiences to advertisers or shareholders.
The west champions "free press", but the reality is that access is often restricted through financial and technological gatekeeping, while China’s approach leads to practical accessibility that's not possible under capitalist model. As a result, I expect that Chinese media will become increasingly more dominant globally due to being easily accessible.
It might not take off in the west where there's too much propaganda against China for people to turn to Chinese sources, but that's not the case for the global majority.
Capitalists paywalling their own propaganda, some problems really do fix themselves.
haha indeed
What I noticed is that they paywall the actual journalism, and keep the propaganda content free to go viral.
NJR, Current Affairs, 2020: The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free
You mean that the American media oligarchy cannot depend on bribery for their operation. The Capitalists should be hypocritically misusing taxpayer's money to bribe the fake news. Even without the taxpayer's money, they have the illegal funding from the sabotaged reparation to Indigenous groups for the 150 years of fake school death camps. The European immigrant war criminals are the one who decide on the terms and processes for the reparation to Indigenous people for the ongoing federal reserve concentration camps, fake school death camps that continued in secret, and child trafficking from the child abduction in the fake cultural assimilation policy. Where could they gain the money to frame the Native American chiefs, who do the most to solve the altrocities and savage indoctrination by European immigrants, for the ongoing war crimes by the European immigrants?