What was the Cyrus's 'big news?

Is there a big difference between what China's English-language CCTV reports about Hong Kong, and what China's domestic news services report?

• CCTV is one of the news services that Sky Television make available in Britain, and I've been following it.   For a long time it was ignoring the Hong Kong protests, while Western media were full of them.   Two or three weeks back - I didn't note the exact day - there was a sudden switch.  I think this coincided with some senior officials in Beijing making statements that clearly signalled that the main demands of the protestors were not going to be conceded.  Since that time, it has been a regular item, even while the Western news channels I watch (BBC World and Channel 4 News) have dropped it.   But people also say that mainland Chinese don't hear much about the protests.  Is there a big difference between CCTV and the various Chinese-language news services?

• Answer:

  Yes.  CCTV Chinese has hardly covered the protests. The other thing is that there is a marked difference between the pro-Beijing news sources.  The most strongest anti-Occupy news comes out of the HK pro-Beijing newspapers (Wenweipo).  They have covered Occupy extensively and they also talk about how terrible Occupy is.  The other pro-Beijing newspapers in HK have been much more muted at criticizing Occupy. One thing that is of note.  All of the pro-Bejing news sources refer to the movement as "Occupy Central".  It turns out that "Occupy Central" is a terrible name in Chinese because it sounds like "enemy occupation of China."  The term "Umbrella Revolution" is very, very rarely used. The other cool thing about the HK newspapers is that you see interactive negotiation by megaphone.  You can see the conversation happen real time. Hong Kong has a British media system.  The newspapers are very partisan.  The electronic medium are much less sensationalistic. One other thing is that the CCP media strategy is coordinated, and it follows Maoist doctrine.  "When the enemy advances, we retreat; when the enemy camps, we harrass; when the enemy tires, we attack; when the enemy retreats, we pursue."  One thing that happened in the first week, was that the pro-Occupy forces were advancing, so the anti-occupy forces disappeared.  You saw retreat turning into harrassment a week ago, and now the anti-occupy forces are attacking.