They did not exclude them. China in the Qing became very closed with a bunch of incompetent emperors towards the end. The Chinese locked themselves up like someone with an epidemic disease. Only when the 80s came did China awaken to the outside world and try to find ways to live up to its potential. Jiaodian Fangtan is a daily program on Chinese central television just after the news that exposes corruption and speaks up for the little man.
Many people line up at their door and at the door of local television stations.
In the Watergate scandal in America, it was the news media that went out to get the story, it wasn't the masses who rushed to the media to give them the story. In a healthy society, the government, court system, and lawyers are a force trusted by the people to solve problems. Jiaodian Fangtan is like the piece of straw that the drowning man reaches out for. It isn't that the drowning man believes that the straw will save him. A China that needs Jiaodian Fangtan is a sick China.