The big US media outlets were all caught-out covering up for the US government, pushing propaganda and sitting on stories in the lead-up to an actual war. So i

The big US media outlets were all caught-out covering up for the US government, pushing propaganda and sitting on stories in the lead-up to an actual war. So if any government involvement opens the door to play every story off as government controlled, were the Dateline/gas tank story, or the Toyota/stuck accelerator story, etc all government propaganda then? > "That's the only evidence you can see?" That's the only evidence I see, yes. I see lots of other things that might be a result of government involvement, but those things have plausible mundane motives as well. So I'm hesitant to identify them as definitive proof of a government plot. e.g. I would expect a Chinese consumer protection sort of program to single out Apple's involvement in any widespread activity for the same reason every western news outlet and blog singles out Apple's involvement in the same situations. Foxconn's labor conditions have always been overwhelmingly reported as an Apple problem, despite their near universal contracts across the industry. And this despite Apple being the only major player who's ever acknowledged problems or taken steps to improve things. This is done because Apple stories get attention to a degree that brings non-trivial monetary incentives. So I wouldn't see Chinese news organizations doing the same exact thing as necessarily evidence of a coordinated government smear campaign.