Falling for government propaganda

I got this AP-story from a journalist in Shanghai who was soliciting my opinion about the article. He did not call back, so he might got already some printable comments from other internet experts. I'm not sure that what I have to say would fit into the way how Western media try to frame their China-stories.
Regular readers know that the stories carries at least two key words that trigger off my anger. First, it is the word "crackdown". Most people living outside China associate that with large numbers of police cars carrying away innocent citizens.
Then, there is the word "China", who is carrying out that crackdown. I know, I make the mistake sometimes myself (and got here rightfully scolded for doing just that), but "China" in itself is the wrong word. You should identify the government department behind it. If it is the Ministry of Culture, we just ignore it, since they tend to rule their country by press releases. When it would be local public security departments, it could be more serious, at least in some localities.
What happens in this case is that AP is copying a Xinhua propaganda piece, creating the impression that 1. there is actually going to happen something; 2. what is going to happen might actually be bad.
The chances of anything happening at all, beyond some token action at best, is very small. Most government officials are so busy in writing this kind of nonsense, they would seldom have time to take any real action. The nicely coined action is meant to reassure people that the government is taking care of them, preventing crimes - however you would define those crimes. That message, meant to reassure its citizens, turns into something evil in the hands of Western news agencies.
Of course, those news agencies have to make a living too, but I wonder why especially the more seasoned correspondents would actually take those propaganda stories serious enough to report them. Isn't there enough real news. And then more ignorant media start to copy those AP-stories. And it is all fake, very fake news.

Update: Just bumped into yet another AP crackdown story.
At least here they identify the GAPP as the organization behind it. Not sure if you have been watching video products, and especially games. Quite a lot of horror there: my estimation, very little is going to happen.