The dichotomy of China Global Television Network's news coverage

Although much is made of the universalisation of 'US-style' journalism around the world and Chinese journalists' shared professional values with counterparts in liberal-democratic countries (Zhang, 2009), the effect of these trends on journalism in China is yet to be fully explored. U...

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Published in:Pacific journalism review : PJR 2019-07, Vol.25 (1/2), p.102-121
Main Authors: Fearon, Thomas, Rodrigues, Usha M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Asia-Pacific
Attitudes
Cable television broadcasting industry
Case studies
CGTN
Challenges
China Central Television (CCTV)
China. CNN
Chinese propaganda
comparative journalism
disaster communication
Foreign news
framing analysis
Journalism
Journalists
Media coverage
Message framing
Methods
Political aspects
Services
Television broadcasting
Zhongguo gong chan dang
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Summary:Although much is made of the universalisation of 'US-style' journalism around the world and Chinese journalists' shared professional values with counterparts in liberal-democratic countries (Zhang, 2009), the effect of these trends on journalism in China is yet to be fully explored. Using the 2015 Tianjin blasts as a case study, this article investigates China Global Television Network (CGTN) and CNN International's coverage of the disaster. The empirical study finds that despite their overlapping news values, the two networks' opposing ideological objectives contributed to different framings of the Tianjin blasts. Although CGTN, as a symbol of Chinese media's presence on the world stage, has clearly travelled far from its past era of party-line journalism, it still hesitates to apportion responsibility to those in power. The authors argue that CGTN is increasingly torn by its dichotomous role as a credible media competing for audience attention on the world stage, and a vital government propaganda organ domestically.
ISSN:1023-9499
2324-2035
DOI:10.24135/pjr.v25i1.404