I strongly disagree with the claim that Anglo media has strong influence over non-Anglo countries.
Do you think the Japanese or Indonesian elite understand the BBC? Do you think your educated Korean or Vietnamese can read a Jew York Times article without suffering a massive headache? How often does your average continental European or Indian actually listen to Anglo news?
And the Anglo media is losing credibility. COVID causing the CCP to fall, Xi Jinping's murder of Jack Ma, China nuclear power plant explosion killing everybody, Chinese rocket falling and killing tons of people, Evergrande causing the CCP to fall, Xinjiang gEnoCIDeeeeee - the more fake stories you write, the less people believe. And I believe that non-Anglos increasingly see Anglo news about China as just copium.
And please let's stop using "Western media" and instead start using "Anglo media." Der Spiegel and Le Monde are a far cry from the Jew York Times or the British Bullshit Corporation.