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Those are some awesome videos from Mars. Why is there no coverage of this in US media?

fartcannon 5y ago
Well, since they're competitors in this space, and it's not exactly a novel experience to drive a rover on Mars, they'd probably end up only using it to stir the pot. I guess be thankful they're not doing that?
unity1001 5y ago
Envy, ill will, sore loser-ness, exceptionalism. Ending up lying, propaganda and obscuring the truth.
- woeirua 5y ago
  LOL. I get that bashing the US is popular on this site, but this comment is really detached from reality. The US landed its own rover on Mars not that long ago, and they're not even covering it in the domestic press. Why would anyone expect them to cover another country's rover if they wont cover their own?
  - monocasa 5y ago
    Perseverance had (and still has) tons of domestic press.
- cscurmudgeon 5y ago
  Was there similar coverage of US missions in Chinese press? How do you quantify that? The US landed a Mars rover almost a quarter of a century ago and there was almost no major coverage of the recent rover mission in the US press. > sore loser-ness What does that even mean?
  - shadofx 5y ago
    It means that the US had a responsibility to prevent anyone else from landing on Mars, and has failed in that. Should have used NORAD to intercept the Chinese rocket while it goes up, I suppose? That's what you get for sleeping on the job.
    - cscurmudgeon 5y ago
      Very poor attempt at humor.
      - canadianfella 5y ago
        No.
pp19dd 5y ago
To be fair, there's definitely plenty of coverage of both rovers. These and all science stories are particularly easy to cover [read: labor-cheap] since everything is spoon-fed on the account of not being able to get boots on the ground. But what we can't do generate interest. There's only so much shoveling you can do before people not only lose interest, but get repulsed by the attempt.
SiempreViernes 5y ago
One big factor behind the difference of coverage the fact the Chinese are really restrictive with releasing footage: maybe you noticed in the article that the landing happened May 14 but the footage showed up just now. So it's much less interesting for eg CNN to plan a big feature for the touch down if they can only count of stock footage.
- varispeed 5y ago
  Plenty of time to create a video like this without actually landing on Mars.
  - mahkeiro 5y ago
    This is nonsense, If you want to fake it you can also do it before…
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      [deleted]
  - ineedasername 5y ago
    And pretty easy for US monitoring of launches to determine if no launch corresponded to this and tell the world it was fake. If was a fake, it would require a fair number of people outside the PRC to remain silent.
  - gpt5 5y ago
    The landing was confirmed with US satellite footage of the landing site: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57427797 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57427797
- JKCalhoun 5y ago
  Good point. Never mind that at this point it's "yesterday's news" (and then some!).
- godelski 5y ago
  Also note that when the rover _did_ touchdown there was news about it. Same when it was launched. But the slow release of footage and updates makes it harder to tell compelling stories. Stories happen when things are released, such as now.
ilamont 5y ago
In Google News, there are articles and video from CNN, ABC, Space.com, and other U.S. news organizations, some of them dating from yesterday (Sunday).
bilbo0s 5y ago
Because propaganda. How much coverage of US missions made it into Chinese media outlets? Significantly less than the coverage of US missions in US media outlets. Why is that? Chinese propaganda. For the same reasons, the coverage of Chinese missions will be downplayed in US media. You can't downplay US missions and then ask why the US downplays yours. You already know why. Because of the propaganda war.
reaperducer 5y ago
Why is there no coverage of this in US media Because you didn't bother to look for it, and just assumed it wasn't there because of your worldview? I see it in plenty of U.S. media coverage. A quick search turns up CNN as the first result.
- mullen 5y ago
  China's current rover is what the US put on Mars, twice, 16 years ago (Those rovers ran for 6 and 12 years). The US is currently putting nuclear powered rovers on Mars. That is why there is no huge US media coverage of this story in the US.
  - bogwog 5y ago
    That's bullshit. China landing a rover on Mars is a huge accomplishment even if it isn't as advanced as what NASA has. Do you think the editors of CNN/Fox/whatever saw this story and decided not to run with it just because the rover's power system is outdated?
    - aardvarkr 5y ago
      They reported it because it’s noteworthy but do you really think it’s a huge accomplishment for the US and deserves propaganda-level hype on all major news networks for an event that happened on may 16? Instead you get incredibly hostile and defensive. It’s a great accomplishment for the Chinese but seriously man check your biased worldview at the door. Do you get just as upset when China doesn’t report on the US gymnastics superiority in the olympics and instead chooses to focus coverage on the Chinese prowess in weightligting, table tennis, and diving?
axguscbklp 5y ago
I am surprised that there is even as much coverage as there is. We are still getting basically the same footage of big deserts full of broken rock from Mars that we were in the 1970s, it is just in higher resolution now. There is not much reason for a person to get particularly excited about yet another Mars rover unless that person is interested in some pretty technical stuff. And with a Chinese rover, US audiences do not even get a nationalist thrill from news about it. Basically, unless you are into science, the reality of Mars is kind of boring. It is like Antarctica - there can be a lot of drama in getting there and surviving there and traveling around its rough conditions, but actual footage from there is almost entirely just very similar-looking vast white plains.
coldtea 5y ago
For the same reason US coverage of Olympic Games are 24/7 spotlight on American athletes. Shauvinism, exceptionalism, and provincialism.
- fma 5y ago
  If you're NBC and you're out to make money from advertisement...would you get more views showing spotlights of athletes from random countries...or spotlight of athletes from the US? I guarantee you China isn't doing a spotlight on US athletes. Hell, there are some athletes they are taking away the spotlight. https://radiichina.com/li-ying-coming-out/ https://radiichina.com/li-ying-coming-out/
  - coldtea 5y ago
    >If you're NBC and you're out to make money from advertisement...would you get more views showing spotlights of athletes from random countries...or spotlight of athletes from the US? If it had a mature audience, and not provincial chauvinists that only know/care for their "heroes" in a sports event, then they'd make money "showing spotlights of athletes from random countries" too, like it happens all over the globe. >I guarantee you China isn't doing a spotlight on US athletes Don't know about China, but I've seen the Olympic games TV coverage over the years from several countries in Europe, Asia, and the US too, and , and only the US cancels out the rest of the world in their coverage. Others get the full picture, enjoy profiles and full coverage of events involving "not their own" athletes, and so on. If China does the same, that's their loss, but it's not some standard the US is OK for following...
    - throwawaygal7 5y ago
      You can find this coverage in the US too. I think its normal for a countries population to focus mostly on their own team(s) in international competition. Even for the world cup, that's the what it is (mostly). I don't think its 'provincial' to want your own team to win.
      - 5y ago

Well, since they're competitors in this space, and it's not exactly a novel experience to drive a rover on Mars, they'd probably end up only using it to stir the pot. I guess be thankful they're not doing that?

unity1001 5y ago

Envy, ill will, sore loser-ness, exceptionalism. Ending up lying, propaganda and obscuring the truth.

woeirua 5y ago
LOL. I get that bashing the US is popular on this site, but this comment is really detached from reality. The US landed its own rover on Mars not that long ago, and they're not even covering it in the domestic press. Why would anyone expect them to cover another country's rover if they wont cover their own?
- monocasa 5y ago
  Perseverance had (and still has) tons of domestic press.
cscurmudgeon 5y ago
Was there similar coverage of US missions in Chinese press? How do you quantify that? The US landed a Mars rover almost a quarter of a century ago and there was almost no major coverage of the recent rover mission in the US press. > sore loser-ness What does that even mean?
- shadofx 5y ago
  It means that the US had a responsibility to prevent anyone else from landing on Mars, and has failed in that. Should have used NORAD to intercept the Chinese rocket while it goes up, I suppose? That's what you get for sleeping on the job.
  - cscurmudgeon 5y ago
    Very poor attempt at humor.
    - canadianfella 5y ago
      No.

pp19dd 5y ago

To be fair, there's definitely plenty of coverage of both rovers. These and all science stories are particularly easy to cover [read: labor-cheap] since everything is spoon-fed on the account of not being able to get boots on the ground. But what we can't do generate interest. There's only so much shoveling you can do before people not only lose interest, but get repulsed by the attempt.

SiempreViernes 5y ago

One big factor behind the difference of coverage the fact the Chinese are really restrictive with releasing footage: maybe you noticed in the article that the landing happened May 14 but the footage showed up just now. So it's much less interesting for eg CNN to plan a big feature for the touch down if they can only count of stock footage.

varispeed 5y ago
Plenty of time to create a video like this without actually landing on Mars.
- mahkeiro 5y ago
  This is nonsense, If you want to fake it you can also do it before…
  - deleted 5y ago
    [deleted]
- ineedasername 5y ago
  And pretty easy for US monitoring of launches to determine if no launch corresponded to this and tell the world it was fake. If was a fake, it would require a fair number of people outside the PRC to remain silent.
- gpt5 5y ago
  The landing was confirmed with US satellite footage of the landing site: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57427797 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57427797
JKCalhoun 5y ago
Good point. Never mind that at this point it's "yesterday's news" (and then some!).
godelski 5y ago
Also note that when the rover _did_ touchdown there was news about it. Same when it was launched. But the slow release of footage and updates makes it harder to tell compelling stories. Stories happen when things are released, such as now.

ilamont 5y ago

In Google News, there are articles and video from CNN, ABC, Space.com, and other U.S. news organizations, some of them dating from yesterday (Sunday).

bilbo0s 5y ago

Because propaganda. How much coverage of US missions made it into Chinese media outlets? Significantly less than the coverage of US missions in US media outlets. Why is that? Chinese propaganda. For the same reasons, the coverage of Chinese missions will be downplayed in US media. You can't downplay US missions and then ask why the US downplays yours. You already know why. Because of the propaganda war.

reaperducer 5y ago

Why is there no coverage of this in US media Because you didn't bother to look for it, and just assumed it wasn't there because of your worldview? I see it in plenty of U.S. media coverage. A quick search turns up CNN as the first result.

mullen 5y ago
China's current rover is what the US put on Mars, twice, 16 years ago (Those rovers ran for 6 and 12 years). The US is currently putting nuclear powered rovers on Mars. That is why there is no huge US media coverage of this story in the US.
- bogwog 5y ago
  That's bullshit. China landing a rover on Mars is a huge accomplishment even if it isn't as advanced as what NASA has. Do you think the editors of CNN/Fox/whatever saw this story and decided not to run with it just because the rover's power system is outdated?
  - aardvarkr 5y ago
    They reported it because it’s noteworthy but do you really think it’s a huge accomplishment for the US and deserves propaganda-level hype on all major news networks for an event that happened on may 16? Instead you get incredibly hostile and defensive. It’s a great accomplishment for the Chinese but seriously man check your biased worldview at the door. Do you get just as upset when China doesn’t report on the US gymnastics superiority in the olympics and instead chooses to focus coverage on the Chinese prowess in weightligting, table tennis, and diving?

axguscbklp 5y ago

I am surprised that there is even as much coverage as there is. We are still getting basically the same footage of big deserts full of broken rock from Mars that we were in the 1970s, it is just in higher resolution now. There is not much reason for a person to get particularly excited about yet another Mars rover unless that person is interested in some pretty technical stuff. And with a Chinese rover, US audiences do not even get a nationalist thrill from news about it. Basically, unless you are into science, the reality of Mars is kind of boring. It is like Antarctica - there can be a lot of drama in getting there and surviving there and traveling around its rough conditions, but actual footage from there is almost entirely just very similar-looking vast white plains.

coldtea 5y ago

For the same reason US coverage of Olympic Games are 24/7 spotlight on American athletes. Shauvinism, exceptionalism, and provincialism.

fma 5y ago
If you're NBC and you're out to make money from advertisement...would you get more views showing spotlights of athletes from random countries...or spotlight of athletes from the US? I guarantee you China isn't doing a spotlight on US athletes. Hell, there are some athletes they are taking away the spotlight. https://radiichina.com/li-ying-coming-out/ https://radiichina.com/li-ying-coming-out/
- coldtea 5y ago
  >If you're NBC and you're out to make money from advertisement...would you get more views showing spotlights of athletes from random countries...or spotlight of athletes from the US? If it had a mature audience, and not provincial chauvinists that only know/care for their "heroes" in a sports event, then they'd make money "showing spotlights of athletes from random countries" too, like it happens all over the globe. >I guarantee you China isn't doing a spotlight on US athletes Don't know about China, but I've seen the Olympic games TV coverage over the years from several countries in Europe, Asia, and the US too, and , and only the US cancels out the rest of the world in their coverage. Others get the full picture, enjoy profiles and full coverage of events involving "not their own" athletes, and so on. If China does the same, that's their loss, but it's not some standard the US is OK for following...
  - throwawaygal7 5y ago
    You can find this coverage in the US too. I think its normal for a countries population to focus mostly on their own team(s) in international competition. Even for the world cup, that's the what it is (mostly). I don't think its 'provincial' to want your own team to win.
    - 5y ago