Chinese TV Chief: Journalists are ‘Propaganda Workers’

[JayAtl]

The words of newly appointed director of Central China Television Hu Zhanfan recently sent a shiver down the spine of China’s state journalists: “Some CCTV news workers have not categorized themselves as the Party’s propaganda workers, instead they categorize themselves as professional journalists. This is a fundamental error,” he said.

Hu took up his position two weeks ago, and since then Chinese web users have circulated remarks he has made about over 10-thousand times on microblog services.

“Some people think that emphasizing the nature of the Party and (CCTV’s) function as its mouthpiece will influence the objectivity of the news reports and how we accord to the rules of journalism in handling matters… this is a big mistake and is very one-sided,” he said in an address, later published in an article by the state-run Xinhua News Agency

Hu was speaking at an event hosted by the China National Media Association in May, but only after he became director of CCTV did the Chinese public dig up his prior remarks.

One blogger writes: “This clearly tells the public: CCTV doesn’t do news, it does propaganda.”

Another had some advice for China’s Press and Publication Administration: “They should take back CCTV reporters’ press IDs and issue them with propaganda worker IDs.”

Former China News Service reporter Gao Yu told NTD that Hu was picked for his willingness to cooperate with the regime.

[Gao Yu, Former China News Service Reporter]: “The Central Propaganda Department instructs the heads of the various departments to do things this way, and it requires them to do things this way. Its requirements for selecting people are: who can serve us as an obedient tool? Who will say ‘our media serves the part?’ They will choose those kinds of people.”

The Chinese regime is currently embarking on a ‘soft-power’ drive with a $7.1-billion dollar fund for the development of state-run media outside the country. CCTV plans to open studios in North America and Africa and has done prominent advertising in Times Square in New York


Chinese TV Chief: Journalists are

 

[Aramsogo]

How is this different from Voice of America, RT, NKK, BBC, Al Jazeera and Whatever Indian news network is called (don't know and don't care).

 

[mikkix]

^^^^ I totally agree with the chinese.

 

[gambit]

How is this different from Voice of America,...

The VOA is targeted for foreign audiences, not domestic ones. And my friends who once worked -- and some who still do -- for 'The V' have never reported that they were told to be America's propaganda workers in any way, subtle or blatant. If you want to see anything half way close to what your man is saying, then it would be something like Army Times, or Air Force Times, or Marine Corps Gazette, but we know who are their audiences, do we?

May be Baidu is the Party's propaganda apparatus on the Internet?

 

[JayAtl]

The VOA is targeted for foreign audiences, not domestic ones. And my friends who once worked -- and some who still do -- for 'The V' have never reported that they were told to be America's propaganda workers in any way, subtle or blatant. If you want to see anything half way close to what your man is saying, then it would be something like Army Times, or Air Force Times, or Marine Corps Gazette, but we know who are their audiences, do we?

May be Baidu is the Party's propaganda apparatus on the Internet?

IT IS - look at the last video...I posted. shocking how the propoganda machine works...

 

[LetsGetRowdy]

bcc, cnn, fox, etc are also propaganda.

every country's media outlet is their own propaganda tool. we know the sky is blue, but indians don't

 

[gambit]

bcc, cnn, fox, etc are also propaganda.

every country's media outlet is their own propaganda tool. we know the sky is blue, but indians don't

Sure, just broaden the meaning of 'propaganda' to suit.

 

[LetsGetRowdy]

Sure, just broaden the meaning of 'propaganda' to suit.

you're a vietnamese who thinks he's american. nuff' said.

by the way, south vietnam or north vietnam?

 

[gambit]

you're a vietnamese who thinks he's american. nuff' said.

by the way, south vietnam or north vietnam?

How about 'middle America'? Must be tough to find someone who resist your racially tinged view of the world.

 

[LetsGetRowdy]

How about 'middle America'? Must be tough to find someone who resist your racially tinged view of the world.

south vietnam or north vietnam?

 

[HongWu]

Epoch Times = propaganda for indians with an inferiority complex

 

[beijingwalker]

India is the same

Freedom of expression
Main article: Freedom of expression in India

According to the estimates of Reporters Without Borders, India ranks 122nd worldwide in 2010 on the press freedom index (down from 105th in 2009). The press freedom index for India is 38.75 in 2010 (29.33 for 2009) on a scale that runs from 0 (most free) to 105 (least free).[25][26]

The Indian Constitution, while not mentioning the word "press", provides for "the right to freedom of speech and expression" (Article 19(1) a). However this right is subject to restrictions under subclause (2), whereby this freedom can be restricted for reasons of "sovereignty and integrity of India, the security of the State, friendly relations with foreign States, public order, preserving decency, preserving morality, in relation to contempt of court, defamation, or incitement to an offence". Laws such as the Official Secrets Act and Prevention of Terrorism Act [27] (POTA) have been used to limit press freedom. Under POTA, person could be detained for up to six months before the police were required to bring charges on allegations for terrorism-related offenses. POTA was repealed in 2004, but was replaced by amendments to UAPA.[28] The Official Secrets Act 1923 is abolished after right to information act 2005

For the first half-century of independence, media control by the state was the major constraint on press freedom. Indira Gandhi famously stated in 1975 that All India Radio is "a Government organ, it is going to remain a Government organ..." [29] With the liberalization starting in the 1990s, private control of media has burgeoned, leading to increasing independence and greater scrutiny of government. Organizations like Tehelka and NDTV have been particularly influential, e.g. in bringing about the resignation of powerful Haryana minister Venod Sharma. In addition, laws like Prasar Bharati act passed in recent years contribute significantly to reducing the control of the press by the government.

 

[gpit]

The words of newly appointed director of Central China Television Hu Zhanfan recently sent a shiver down the spine of China’s state journalists: ...

The fact is also "a shiver down the spine" of Americans that Epoch is US government sponsored Falun Gong journal and is a propaganda tool of US government.

 

[Lyrical Mockery]

accusations and counter accusations. This would never stop

 

[Interpreter]

The VOA is targeted for foreign audiences, not domestic ones. And my friends who once worked -- and some who still do -- for 'The V' have never reported that they were told to be America's propaganda workers in any way, subtle or blatant. If you want to see anything half way close to what your man is saying, then it would be something like Army Times, or Air Force Times, or Marine Corps Gazette, but we know who are their audiences, do we?

May be Baidu is the Party's propaganda apparatus on the Internet?

Innocent sport.Don't you know the Baidu's biggest shareholder is an American company?Do you want to tell us Baidu is the Amercan biparty propaganda apparatus?!