• journalism_died@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Why would it be newsworthy for any of the Guardian’s readers to know that Vietnam bAnNeD a Barbie movie? this is an ad, it’s not journalism.

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      1 year ago

      Why would a movie about Barbie recognize disputed Chinese territorial borders in the first place?

      If this was an ad for the movie, it would probably (hopefully) been more efficient on a western audience had it not recognized illegal borders.

      We already know China is obsessed with representations like this - hence the huge fuzz about the flag of Taiwan appearing in Top Gun, to name one example. We also know the movie industry is terrified of upsetting China, as it’s a key demographic and money cow.

      So it’s a bit suspicious when completely unnecessary elements like the recognition of China’s contested sea borders are included in a movie where they have no good reason to appear in the first place. It would be cool if the movie industry wasn’t afraid of pissing off the CCP, but the least we could ask for is for them no to spread their propaganda.

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      1 year ago

      It’s extremely interesting to me how China’s SCS claims permeate through big business. It’s no coincidence they used a china-friendly map.