How framing of nationally and locally sensitive issues varies? A content analysis of news from party and nonparty newspapers in China (original) (raw)
Related papers
Global Media and Communication, 2022
Using both quantitative and qualitative content analysis, this study investigates how two Chinese Communist Party newspapers frame the same story to international and national audiences. The empirical findings illustrate how propaganda techniques originally developed and applied in Western and democratic countries have been adopted and refined by newspapers in a state-run Communist press environment to create frames that best align with the cultural and political predispositions of domestic and international readers. The findings suggest Chinese authorities understand Western communication theory and appreciate how that theory can be applied to disseminate messages to both foreign and domestic audiences.
The dichotomy of China Global Television Network’s news coverage
Pacific journalism review, 2018
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 on those in power. We argue that CGTN is increasingly torn by its dichotomous role as a credible media competing for audience attention at the world stage, and a vital government propaganda organ domestically.
Understanding the Changing Chinese Media: Through the Lens of Crises
Guided by the framing theory, this study compared the Chinese media's coverage of SARS in 2003 and the Sichuan Earthquake in 2008. Findings suggest party media and market-oriented media demonstrated considerable differences in their crisis coverage. More diverse discourses are tolerated in the Chinese media and political system. Both party media and market-oriented media showed signs of improvement in terms of framing strategies and news source
Political Ideology and News Organizational Control
1985
Reporters in Hong Kong who wete working for 21 Chinese-language newspapers were mailed questionnaires to elicit information on the following: how news organizations in a highly politicized enbirondent exercise control on recruitment, policy direction with regard to the coverage of conflicting issues, and the resolution of possible conflicts between tie press and journalists. Respondents were. encouraged to return the questionnaire with the assurance of.anonymity. The findings revealed that (1) political ideology Sf the pyess determines staff recruitment, policy governing the coverage of conflicting issues, and the resolution of conflicts between the press and journalists; (2) reporters are highly congruent with their employing organizations in terms of political ideology on a rightist-.centrist-leftist continuum; (3) the party-owned press has a higher propensity to impose policy control over the coverage of social issues than the nonparty press; (4) reporters on occasion dispute policibs; and (5) older reporters working in the party press tend to be more submissive to policy control than their counterparts in the nonparty press, and the more educated reporters are less compliant at both types of newspapers. (HOD)
Media education, training people to understand media, has a particular resonance for Chinese journalists. On the one hand, they train to make media, and therefore are trained in the meanings media make. On the other hand, journalism training and practices in China are changing as the Chinese media landscape changes. With this in mind, this study investigates one site of news production – the CCTV (China Central Television) English News – in an attempt to isolate the specificities and meanings of news production at this site. Through a combination of content analysis and participant observation, a picture of news-making in China emerges which undermines the assumption that the Chinese news is simply a mouthpiece for the Party and government. This study is therefore an intervention into the debate currently underway in China as to the direction media, and ipso facto media education, should take.
After the spillover effect: news flows and power relations in Chinese mainstream media
Asian Journal of Communication, 2014
ABSTRACT Through a case study on the news flow of an online protest in China, this study explores how the power relations among the mainstream media affect, and are affected by, the spillover effect of news. Even though the Internet does serve as a catalyst to initiate alternative voices that otherwise wouldn't be heard in the established media, the results reveal that the power structure inherent in the mainstream media (particularly within their online versions) such as bureaucratic ranks and institutional ties with party organs, plays a significant role in shaping the trajectory of news flow and media framing strategies. The Internet compensates for the disadvantage of the lower-level media that are short of political resources, while the higher-level media tend to rely on the political capital to exercise their influence. At the same time, the media with more political resources have become increasingly intrepid in challenging the state. Such a dynamic takes place in the context of the changing state-media relations that have seen the authoritarian state shift its information control from a totalitarian mode to a practical one, even though the latter may open up a space for flow of information that can sometimes undermine state power.
Chinese, U.S. Newspapers Differ in Use of News Frames
This study examines how U.S. and Chinese newspapers differed in how they framed China’s dispute with Google over censorship. The results show that Chinese newspapers were more likely to use the economic consequences frame and less likely to use the human interest frame.
The rise of the dragon? Framing China’s global leadership in elite American newspapers
The current study analyzes the framing of China’s emergence as a global power in the opinion pages of two elite newspapers. The study expands upon previous studies examining newspaper opinion gatekeepers’ use of the editorial and opposite-editorial pages as salient platforms for the expression of diverse opinion regarding foreign affairs. Results show that the New York Times framed China as a global power undermined by structural limitations, while The Wall Street Journal framed China as a direct threat to US foreign policy interests. The results of the analysis are discussed in the context of media-government power dynamics.