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🗓️ 31 May 2021
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0:00.0 | The Spectator magazine combines incisive political analysis with books and arts reviews of unrivaled authority. Absolutely free. Go to spectator.com.uk forward slash voucher. |
0:31.4 | Hello and welcome to Chinese Whispers with me, Cindy Yu. Every episode, I'll be talking to journalists, experts and long-time China |
0:38.2 | watches about the latest in Chinese politics, society and more. There'll be a smattering of history |
0:43.9 | to catch you up on the background knowledge and some context as well. How do the Chinese see |
0:48.5 | these issues? What is it like to be a journalist in China? It's a line of work that in the West means upholding freedom of speech and holding the government to account, but for obvious reasons, the same can't be true in China. |
1:03.0 | So what is the everyday life of a journalist there like? How often do they get briefed by the government on what they can and can't say? |
1:16.6 | And are they all just mouthpieces for propaganda or are there various degrees of independence? |
1:23.1 | To answer this question, I'm joined today by political scientist Maria Reppnikova from Georgia State University, who's the author of Media Politics in China, and Funkerchen, assistant professor in journalism |
1:29.3 | at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and formerly a journalist in mainland China himself. |
1:35.4 | So welcome to the podcast both. Maria, to start with, perhaps you can give us an idea of the |
1:40.8 | landscape, the media landscape in China. What does it look like? Who are the main players? |
1:45.7 | Sure. Well, first of all, this landscape has changed quite a bit in recent years, but I think overall, |
1:50.3 | just to kind of give a bit of a preview of what it looks like, I think the common perception |
1:54.0 | in the West is that we have this kind of very monolithic media system in China where there's just |
1:57.2 | very few party-owned outlets that kind of dominate the scene, or that the party controls every single message on social media. |
2:02.6 | That's kind of often a comical perception of how things work. |
2:05.8 | But if you look at it from the inside, you see that there is quite a bit of diversity. |
2:09.1 | It doesn't mean there's always diversity of opinion, |
2:10.5 | but there's diversity of how some stories are framed or presented or what's being covered. |
2:14.3 | So first kind of group of outlets are party-owned media, national media, so |
2:18.7 | CGTN or CCTV, Remind Rabau, some of the national outlets that are kind of, you know, capturing the |
2:25.2 | voices of the party. Sin Kuan use, of course, is the helm of that as being the kind of the so-called |
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