It's hard to find hard-hitting environmental reporting in Chinese media - each time a piece really nails the topic, and attracts a significant readership, oops! It disappears. (See the case of "Under the Dome.") But, it turns out, Chinese journalists - even state media journalists - are more than capable of writing about smog. They just prefer to write about it when it's not in China.
France is currently in the midst of a particularly bad bout of air pollution, and state media is all over it. "The Eiffel Tower disappeared," writes Xinhua. CCTV is on Twitter, sending out photos of the French capital buried under a thick cloud of smog.
Moving outside of state media, Sina is all over this as well - they've even written a joint English/Chinese article detailing the differences between PM10 and PM2.5 and they pinpoint the sources of the pollution.
In China, pollution is often blamed on street-side stalls and fireworks - but in France? "The particulates are created by vehicles, heating and heavy industry," according to Sina. Well what do you know.
Perhaps "Under the Dome" should have just pretended to be based in Paris?
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