Working with a former colleague from The Financial Times, where Mr. Addis had been editor of the Weekend section, he set up The Day, whose motto is "Explaining Matters".
The EU will also try, somehow, to spread its own message better: Eurocrats admit they have been outgunned by Russia when it comes to explaining matters like free-trade deals.Amid all this, one fear is of ham-fisted responses.
The new channel, which media experts say appears to be modeled on Al Jazeera, the Arabic news network, aims to provide comprehensive coverage of world affairs, while explaining matters of direct concern to the Chinese leadership in a perspective its producers consider appropriate.
Semantic nonfactualism, the non-cognitivist commitment to the view that moral judgments do not express propositions or predicate properties, rules out one simple way of explaining matters.
"He has been trying to thread this needle between keeping things close to the vest, like we typically do, and explaining matters to the public because this is such an unusual and public case," said a colleague who requested anonymity to speak freely.
Doctors were criticized for not explaining matters clearly, not listening to patients, lack of empathy and poor spoken English and comprehension.
