Friday, October 13, 2006

Post 7: Chinese Broadcasting System

What do you think is the most significant difference between China's broadcasting system and your own country's? Do you think new technology plays a very important role in this system?

2 comments:

Av DG said...

I do not know very much about Chinese media but I would expect the main difference between that and Philippine media would be the amount and extent of control or censorship involved in news.

In my country, there is little censorship by the government of the two major privately owned broadcast corporations which can say pretty much what they want about the government. The government has its own TV station but there are not many people who watch it because of the initial idea of bias and focus on the positive things the government does and the neglect of the negative side.

With a smaller population, we have fewer networks and as I said earlier, the airwaves is dominated by two - ABS-CBN or GMA.

What's interesting about this though is that some people have said that each network is a supporter of either the majority party or the opposition. There have been talk of favoritism and partisan reporting from the two networks especially around election time. WHat adds fuel to this fire is also the fact that some senators in both parties or groups have worked for either networks in the past and have actually been endorsed by the companies and brought to power mainly by the publicity their regular programs had via the networks.

Ko-Jung said...

As far as I’m concerned, the broadcasting system in Taiwan is different from the China’s. The significant difference is the content of the news and the programs.
However, there are two stage of broadcasting system in my country. The first stage is the authoritarian stage and the second stage is democratic stage. In he first stage, the broad casting system in my country in similar to China, in which the TV and Radio is owned by the government, and the content of the news or programs is controlled and censored by the ruling party. The information office filters, inspects, amends, and deletes the inappropriate content of broadcasting system, which may threaten the leadership of the government or president. Not only would be the content of the new and programs censored but songs, articles, talks, and speech would be monitored by the information office.
In the second stage, Taiwan’s broadcasting system has significant difference from first stage. The broadcasting system is broadly owned by private company and the decrease the finance from the government of ruling party. For example, the TV station rapidly grew up from three major TV station to nine 24 hours news TV stations and other many TV stations. Moreover, the power of the information office to censor the content of broadcasting system had been take away. In addition, the government established the National Communication commission which is composed of scholars and consulters to replace the function of information office.
In Nowadays, technology plays an important role in the broadcasting system and change the way of communication. For example the satellite and the SNG deeply affect the broadcasting system in Taiwan. The satellite and SNG promotes the globalization, in which makes people able to watch the real-time news from any place of the world in any time. By this effect, the information office of government or the National Communication Commission could not control the content of the news of broadcasting system which means that the audience would watch the real-time, unselected, unedited, and true news event through the TV or Radio.