Seeking Truth in International TV News
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Seeking Truth in International TV News

China, CGTN and the BBC

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Seeking Truth in International TV News

China, CGTN and the BBC

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About This Book

This book puts CGTN (formerly CCTV-News) and the BBC's international television news head-to-head, interrogating competing 'truths' in the exacting business of news reporting.

Written by a media scholar and former long-serving BBC News journalist, Seeking Truth in International TV News asks if China's English-language television news programmes are little more than state propaganda, and if the BBC can be viewed as a universal news standard to which all other broadcasters should aspire. Over 8 years of Xi Jinping's rule, it investigates how the international TV news channels of CGTN and the BBC reported on Chinese politics, protests in Hong Kong, disasters, China in Africa, and insurgency and its suppression in Xinjiang. The comparison reveals uneven editorial imperatives at the Chinese broadcaster and raises questions about the BBC's professed tenets of balance and impartiality. It also illustrates how Chinese journalists commit 'small acts of journalism' that push the boundaries of information control.

A rigorous analysis of reportage from the two channels, this book will be relevant to scholars of global media, journalism, international relations and public diplomacy. It will also interest those in academia, the media and international affairs who want to examine the nature of news and 'soft power' in a comparative context.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
ISBN
9781000852882
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Journalism
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. List of figures
  8. List of tables
  9. Preface
  10. List of abbreviations
  11. Glossary
  12. 1 A battle for global influence
  13. 2 Seeking ‘truth’ from facts
  14. 3 Telling China’s story well
  15. 4 Responding to disaster
  16. 5 Covering political unrest
  17. 6 Redefining African news
  18. 7 Islam, ‘terror’ and national identity
  19. 8 A Trojan dragon and its Achilles heel
  20. Appendices
  21. Index