How to trivialise news: reporting on the first official visit from the DPRK to South Korea

I have been intrigued for a while by another difference between corporate ‘news’ services (euphemistically called the ‘free press’) and sources from places like China or the DPRK (often dismissed as ‘state-run’). Apart from obvious ideological differences, what intrigues me is what counts as news in the different sources.

For example, the intense focus on the symptom-of-US-decline, Donald Trump, and his tweets simply does not appear in Chinese or DPRK news. Instead, they prefer to focus on su...