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Peddling 'poison': Why Western media's China COVID-19 coverage is like a cigarette ad
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Remember Don Draper from the TV drama "Mad Men"? He helped tobacco companies sell cigarettes without caring that they were deadly. Like Don Draper, presenting incomplete information and adverse information is what many Western media often do when it comes to reporting on China and the COVID-19 outbreak. And with relentless repetition, the narrative creates a Pavlovian hostility towards China, which contaminates the minds of many people worldwide.

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