President Xi Jinping deployed a new campaign against the corruption, western influences and political enemies of China. Among the corrupt was CCTV which is a 24 hour English news channel, of China Central Television, based in Beijing. One of the news programs entailed by the CCTV were fake confessions by businessmen before they were even sent to trail.
According to the nytimes:
"The state-run China Central Television has shown suspects in high-profile cases with potential political sensitivities confessing on air, in some cases before they have been charged with wrongdoing or formally arrested."
CCTV is known to heavily monitor people and their online discussions." The best way to convince people in a communist state is to kill the conversation said Fu Hualing, a law professor at the University of Hong Kong. “Society is just so divided. They monitor the Internet so closely that sometimes they feel they have to end the debate.”
With Xi-Jinping cracking down on CCTV it has more 10,000 employees of the network on edge. It's common knowledge in Beijing and many areas of China that CCTV will take bribes for positive coverage. Managers and executives are timid to make any big decisions since the crackdown began. Major projects have been frozen and they noted that stopping reporters who take bribes is their first priority. According to official news reports who are tracking the investigation ,15 senior employees have gone missing since the crackdown. Among them "Rui Chenggang, 37 was noticeably absent last month from the annual conference of the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, where he had been a fixture for years."
Other executives and producers are afraid to drive their luxury cars in fear they will make themselves conspicuous. CCTV is known as face of the nation of china. Now that it's filthy, China wants to do what it can to clean it up. CCTV is estimated to broadcast an estimated of 700 million Chinese viewers.