Seeking Truth in International TV News : China, CGTN and the BBC Hardback
by Vivien (University of Westminster, UK) Marsh
Part of the Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies series
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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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- Pages:214 pages, 11 Tables, black and white; 29 Line drawings, black and white; 29 Illustrations, black an
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:17/03/2023
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- ISBN:9780367558529
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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:214 pages, 11 Tables, black and white; 29 Line drawings, black and white; 29 Illustrations, black an
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:17/03/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9780367558529