For a lot of foreigners in China like me, Xinhua/People's Daily/Chinadaily are notorious for holding biased views for China. This actually undermines its credibility compared with less biased media like NYTimes.
Ya, the government then wonders why "rumors" are so quickly transmitted on wechat and no one trusts the official press.
I prefer the nytimes, any newspaper that gets blocked by the great firewall of china must be doing something right. The article about Xi Jinping's family using their family relationships to get rich was spot on, but then that story could be applied to any official's family. They have actual standards and refuse to be intimidated by the CCP. The BBC is too harmonious in comparison, useless to me when I need real news about the country I'm living in.
I never claimed nytimes wasn't biased, just nowhere near as biased as Chinese news media, which is all the propaganda you would imagine in an authoritarian communist country. Chinese media is so bad, actually, they make foxnews look respectable in comparison.
