Imagine being a stupid moron in the US who sees all the western propaganda without any further inquiry or criticism into the geopolitical, historical, and economic circumstances/material conditions in China and thinking you are smarter than the communist party and man who is the president of more than a billion people.

"I believe everything the American media tells me" just mutates into "I believe nothing the Foreign media tells me, and will rely on my priors to determine truthfulness (please don't ask where my priors are coming from)"