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CCTV will not change its namePosted by Jeremy Goldkorn, August 16, 2006 11:59 AM
![]() Caijing looks at GAPP, ignores elephants CCTV - "No reason for a name change."
Hence, we should reexamine our system under which state-run news media are now operated as for-profit businesses. As Dr. He Zengke, a political scholar, pointed out in his book, New Road of Anticorruption, “state-run institutions such as newspapers, publications and broadcasting stations have both governmental and commercial characteristics; this is the systematic root of many unhealthy tendencies in the field.” There are several rather large elephants in the Chinese news room that are not mentioned in the piece. Ah well. (link).
“The World is Flat” was scheduled to hit bookshelves in Chinese earlier this summer...
But the demonstration outside the Japanese embassy this morning drew a crowd of scarcely more than a dozen protesters. They were vastly outnumbered by plainclothes police, uniformed police, police cars, vans and buses... ESWN has translated a brief report from Hong Kong's Apple Daily (link. There did not seem to be any reports in the Mainland media about the process, although Xinhua released a condemnation of Koizumi's visit to the Yakasuni shrine (link).
China’s measures to cool the economy may not have a large and immediate impact because of the increasing role of profits in funding investment, the main driver of the country’s double-digit growth this year, according to the World Bank... (link)
[Allen Lee Peng-fei] a Hong Kong delegate to the National People's Congress has appealed to the central government to give a lenient sentence to - or release - SAR-based journalist Ching Cheong, who was tried on espionage charges behind closed doors in Beijing Tuesday... (link)
This is the kind of people they are: Whenever there is news, they anxiously hurry to the scene, whether it's in a city or in the countryside, whether there are seas of fire or boundless expanses of water, difficulties and harships or matters of life and death, they will go no matter what. They use their pens, their cameras, their microphones, their pages and their programs, to record the steps of history, reflect the heartfelt wishes of the masses, to carry forward socialism, and to castigate evil phenomena. .. (link - Chinese) As opposed to that Ching Cheong character, who is clearly a miscreant. |
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Comments on CCTV will not change its name
Xinhua did actually report on the protests -- in English. Don't recall seeing anything in Chinese about the protests from mainland media, though.
Just to point out a typo in the text: the name of the Chinese Pulitzer should be "Changjiang (not Huanghe,-)) Taofen", which is named after 2 late prominent jounalists Fan Changjiang and Zou Taofen.
Thanks William.
I would have thought that if the argument had been made that calling China's state TV network "CCTV" is tantamount to saying "Chinese is no good for branding" then they'd change it right quick.
While ZYDST certainly doesn't roll off the tounge as CCTV does, continuing to use English initials makes about as much sense as the US government deciding that from now on it's going to be the MG government...