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Rather than falling into either category, however, I found that The Times’ Politics journalists were governed in their practice by an ethic not of truthfulness, but of efficacy. I argue that the journalists’ efficacy can be analyzed as a “post-truth” news ethic that is emerging in contemporary China.
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
Interestingly, too, “after their subscription period ended, many struggled to distinguish between what kind of content required payment or not.” That’s not a great sign for the distinctiveness of paid-for news content.
Why News Subscriptions Feel Like a Burden to Young People
niemanlab.org
What is distinctive about the jianghu imaginary that has emerged in today’s China, I suggest, is first, that it sees the interpersonal relationships that constitute and constrain people as being densely entangled with the formal roles and powers that their professional positions invest in them. Second, it sees these relationships, roles, and powers being constantly mobilized by people as a means of pursuing the aspirational ideas that they have about the kind of social, economic, and cultural figures they want to become. These particular features of the contemporary jianghu imaginary are an outgrowth of the way that China’s post-Mao marketization processes have drawn together people’s formal organizational roles, informal relationships, and endeavors to construct new lives and identities for themselves.
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
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