When I was in northern Italy over the weekend I looked for English language TV stations. I found two. One was Euronews. The other was a Chinese state sponsored station. It was slick TV which featured positive items about China. Reports covered the opening of a huge new dam and power plant, a photo op of the Koffee Anan meeting Chinese muckety mucks, and a story about housing complexes.
But the most interesting items were the two stories about the USA. The first was a feature on Guantanamo not closing. The second was about a man in NYC who broke three Guiness records, one for carrying a egg on a spoon for a mile. This channel's choice of stories on that day portrayed the US as human rights violators or fools.