TY - JOUR
T1 - A new world of spectacle in the post-cold war era
T2 - China's central television and its significant other, 1992-2006
AU - Song, Yunya
AU - Chang, Tsan-Kuo
PY - 2016/9/1
Y1 - 2016/9/1
N2 - As the Chinese society is increasingly looking outward, such official media outlets as China's Central Television have been adapting their international news production to the bend of marketization. A longitudinal content analysis of its flagship news program Network News from 1992 to 2006 found that although the quantity of international news hardly echoed such gear changes, the news' timeliness increased remarkably. Consistent with previous findings about the distinctions between the conceptual devices of foreign news and foreign policy news, the focus of CCTV's foreign policy news coverage on the U.S. and East Asia indicated China's regionalized foreign policy design, while the increasing soft news in its foreign news coverage implied CCTV's inclination to tap the audience demands. A further examination of the U.S.-the longstanding "significant other" in CCTV's survey of global spectacle-echoed the Chinese bifurcated views of the U.S. in its pursuit of "peaceful rise".
AB - As the Chinese society is increasingly looking outward, such official media outlets as China's Central Television have been adapting their international news production to the bend of marketization. A longitudinal content analysis of its flagship news program Network News from 1992 to 2006 found that although the quantity of international news hardly echoed such gear changes, the news' timeliness increased remarkably. Consistent with previous findings about the distinctions between the conceptual devices of foreign news and foreign policy news, the focus of CCTV's foreign policy news coverage on the U.S. and East Asia indicated China's regionalized foreign policy design, while the increasing soft news in its foreign news coverage implied CCTV's inclination to tap the audience demands. A further examination of the U.S.-the longstanding "significant other" in CCTV's survey of global spectacle-echoed the Chinese bifurcated views of the U.S. in its pursuit of "peaceful rise".
KW - China's central television
KW - Commercial nationalism
KW - Content analysis
KW - Foreign news
KW - Foreign policy news
KW - Significant other
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U2 - 10.1016/j.pubrev.2014.06.002
DO - 10.1016/j.pubrev.2014.06.002
M3 - RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal
SN - 0363-8111
VL - 42
SP - 465
EP - 475
JO - Public Relations Review
JF - Public Relations Review
IS - 3
ER -