WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE WITH THIS KIND OF ONE-SIDED PRO-GOVERNMENT COVERAGE? MSNBC? China state media under fire for arguing benefits of smog. No, because other state media are actually criticizing them: “While both pieces have since been deleted from their websites, Chinese newspapers lost little time in denouncing their point of view, in an unusual case of state media criticizing other state media, showing the scale of the anger.”