Seeking Truth in International TV News: China, CGTN and the BBC by Vivien Marsh

Description: Seeking Truth in International TV News by Vivien Marsh This book puts CGTN (formerly CCTV-News) and the BBCs international television news head-to-head, interrogating competing truths in the exacting business of news reporting. A rigorous analysis of reportage from the two channels, this book will interest scholars of global media, journalism, international relations and public diplomacy. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book puts CGTN (formerly CCTV-News) and the BBCs 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 Chinas 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 Jinpings 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 BBCs 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. Author Biography Vivien Marsh, an independent academic researcher and journalist who teaches at the University of Westminster, UK, is a former BBC global news editor, reporter and writer. Table of Contents List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Glossary; 1. A Battle for Global Influence; Everything Comes from Somewhere; Going Global; Contested Concepts: Soft Power; Contested Concepts: Impartiality and Balance; Contested Concepts: Propaganda; The Power of the Individual; The Ritual of International News; Chapter Overviews; 2. Seeking Truth from Facts; A Tale of Two News Channels; CCTV in English 1986-2010; CCTV-News 2010-2016; CGTN in English 2017–; BBC World Service Television News 1991-1995; BBC World and BBC World News 1995–; Into Africa, the Americas and Europe; Fractured Worlds; Comparing the News; Categorising the Reporting; Precisions and Limitations; 3. Telling Chinas Story Well; Getting the Story Straight; Two Caged Tigers: The Bo and Zhou Trials; China and its Place in the World; Lunar New Year; The Two Sessions Political Meetings; Covering (the Rest of) China; Whose China Story?; 4. Responding to Disaster; The Bearers of Bad News; The 2015 Yangtze Capsize; The 2019 Jiangsu Explosion; Yangtze to Jiangsu: What Changed?; 5. Covering Political Unrest; One Region, Two Narratives; The 2014 Hong Kong Umbrella Protests; The 2019 Hong Kong Extradition Bill Crisis; CGTNs New Voice; Media Wars; Small Acts of Journalism?; Strengthening Frames; 6. Redefining African News; Chinas News for Africa: Experiment or Expedient?; Changing Africas Media Image; Comparisons in Figures; Comparisons in Framing; China in Africa; Which Journalism, and for Whom?; The African Exception; 7. Islam, Terror and National Identity; Enemies Without and Within; Two Stories of Xinjiang, 2018-2021; Seeking Facts: The 2014 Attacks; Defining Terrorism; 2015: The Case of Charlie Hebdo; Manufacturing Context; 8. A Trojan Dragon and its Achilles Heel; The Battle for Discourse Power; Seeking Answers: News Content; Seeking Answers: Power and Partiality; Sharp Power, Blunt Weapon; The Achilles Heel; The Imperilled Centenarian; The Casualty of Truths; Never Again News From Nowhere; Appendices; Index Review "Vivien Marshs book is an invaluable companion for both scholars and journalists seeking to understand the implications of Chinas rise for international journalism."Pablo Sebastian Morales, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK"At a time when media narratives and political debates are often ensnared in binary or polarised thinking and vestiges of Cold War mentalities, her nuanced analysis emerges as timely and imperative."Hangwei Li, Senior Researcher, German Institute of Development and Sustainability Details ISBN0367558521 Author Vivien Marsh Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Series Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies Year 2023 ISBN-13 9780367558529 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2023-03-17 Imprint Routledge Subtitle China, CGTN and the BBC Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2023-03-17 NZ Release Date 2023-03-17 UK Release Date 2023-03-17 ISBN-10 0367558521 Pages 214 Illustrations 11 Tables, black and white; 29 Line drawings, black and white; 29 Illustrations, black and white DEWEY 070.195 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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