US Media Reports on China

Nowadays apparently, since China is rising in the world, we can expect to see all sorts of reports on China in US media, even those small topics or topics that we Chinese thought Americans won't care (or understand) in the past. Much like when a local musician is the serious subject of academic inquiry of some art or musicology student in a US institution pursuing a Ph.D. Here is a NYT article on Chinese traditional humor talk show performer Guo Degang, a comic and clown character who became controversial after making his fortune in Chinese public..http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/world/asia/03beijing.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1