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[Swprograms] Re: Why is BBC World Service reducing its short wave provision?
- Subject: [Swprograms] Re: Why is BBC World Service reducing its short wave provision?
- From: atlsvo@xxxxxxxxx (maryanne kehoe)
- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:41:23 -0500
Agreed!!
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I really like that we are having a robust discussion on this list
again--even though it seems I might be losing the argument. :-))
But, Dan, are you saying that the trends aren't toward more open speech
in China and that the organs once tightly controlled by the Party are
starting--certainly very slowly--to work away from those strictures? I
ask--respectfully--because you are bound to have greater insight into
this than me.
John
On your bike!
China is more open
personally, but as far as state media (and most is state,
except in Shanghai, Guangzhou and a few small other places
where a private station is allowed), they are as closed as
ever they were. The staff no longer wear Mao jackets, but
they have one in the closet if they have to.
The control is
internalized. Most know how far they can go, even in Hong
Kong where the minor press is slavish to the Beijing line.
What you find in
domestic press is :
" Newspapers now
report previously taboo subjects such as industrial
accidents and social problems, but sensitive subjects, such
as the death in January of ousted leader Zhao Ziyang, can be
buried on back pages and left off broadcasts altogether."
See more at Linkname: Google Search:
http://google.sh/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=ISO-8859-1&ncl=http://www
.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp%3Fxfile%3Ddata/theworld/20
05/March/theworld_March595.xml%26section%3Dtheworld
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005
04:00:11 GMT
including
Linkname: China cracks down on rogue journalists
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews
&storyID=2005-03-23T032204Z_01_JON312081_RTRUKOC_0_CHINA-REPORT
ERS.xml
and
Linkname:
Rules issued to ensure fair journalism
http://english.eastday.com/eastday/englishedition/nation/userob
ject1ai956611.html
The Reuters story above
mentions the "warning shot" at the very popular Southern
Weekend paper
" Last year a former
editor-in-chief of China's best-selling newspaper was jailed
for 12 years for corruption and another editor was held for
five months without charge, drawing fire from critics
who said aggressive journalists were being silenced."
So while the domestic
press is bold enough to take on petty corruption, and with a
signal, larger pieces, they let the party line speak for
itself. It is not as Stalinist? as it once was, yet the iron
fist is in the velvet glove if necessary. There are more
outlets at the provincial and state level. Not the thousand
channel universe but not the 2 channels only in big
cities of a few decades ago.
But the glut of media
from every organization, ministry and regional and city or
provincial group has proved uneconomic, so the government,
sparing a half dozen party organs, has deemed that most
papers should close if not economic and that forced
subscriptions to the Nat Enq and NY Post shall cease. Other
broadcast media has been forced into business conglomerates
to be able to compete, including with a promised media
opening under the WTO. Radio has gone out to be commercial
and hit niches such as traffic, music, but the news all is
filtered--and read--from the Xinhua teletype with only local
stories reported live and with a local touch. Good enough
for most people, and the wiser ones know what is up and
how the press is manipulated.
But as the 'mountains
are high, and the emperor isf very far away' the provinces
and Shanghai can get away with a lot. Hunan TV is quite
modern and watched all over by domestic satellite.
Provincial radio isn't as extended but people do listen to
other regional radio where they can receive it. Shortwave
listening to the Voices of America, Russia, BBC and Radio
Australia give them a perspective and shortwave listening to
the i Chinese, not the World or English Services, is common.
Bringing it back to
shortwave, Chinese media don't dare phrase or cover stories
in the western way when they have been given moral
guidelines or it involves a Chinese external relation
affairs. Nor will any notice be made of most politicians
except the major leaders and spokespersons. Otherwise you'll
just hear about the "Ministry said...." which the inner
circle will have agreed is the line.
Pick up a copy of
Title Media, market, and democracy in China : between
the party line and the bottom line / Yuezhi Zhao
Published Urbana [Ill.] : University of Illinois
Press, c1998 Contents 1. Party Journalism in China: Theory and
Practice -- 2. The Trajectory of Media Reform -- 3. Media
Commercialization with Chinese Characteristics -- 4. Corruption: The
Journalism of Decadence -- 5. Broadcasting Reform amidst
Commercialization -- 6. Newspapers for the Market -- 7. Toward a
Propagandist/Commercial Model of Journalism? --
8. Challenges and Responses -- 9. Media Reform beyond
Commercialization
On Monday, March 21, 2005, at 02:34 AM, Daniel Say wrote:
Jfigliozzi said
Mike
For one thing, I don't think that CRI and the Chinese Communist Party
are one and the same.
Oh? New director is a
stalwart party man from SAFRT.
Some of the staff care
about CCP, many don't. However they have to, in news
sources, use the Xinhua (New China) News Agencies redigests
of Associated Press, UPI etc. reports.
(Have you seen that
Xinhua is the most common source, even in English language,
of news stories in Google?)
All media is part of the
Propaganda (3. Roman Catholic Church A division of the Roman
Curia that has authority in the matter of preaching the
gospel, of establishing the Church in non-Christian
countries,....) or Party Discipline section.
I've had reports from
staff of long delays in items while
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