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Topic: China Central Television

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After I go through carefully of the Wiki page of topic “China Central Television”, I found the resource and information is very limited. I think the reason for the limited information on Wiki is because China Central Television is only serving and open to mainland of China even though some oversea Chinese can pay for those channel. What’s more, Wikipedia is banned in China which is a very ridiculous and strange thing, the people who know most about this thing have no access to provide and check the information, and people who know almost nothing and never have a chance to get in touch with China Central Television, they do have the way to know it, however, that is unnecessary for them. Therefore， I would like to add things about the scandal of China Central TV and how the government use it as a tool to ensure its dictatorship named communism. Obviously, the things I will add to the Wiki page is critical and try to speak out some things that we, as Chinese are not allowed to talk about in our country.

Since Chinese government banned Google and Wikipedia, the only way Chinese people can reveal scandal to the public without taking any risk is posting news overseas. This means once you leave the mainland of China and step in the U.S., you have the way to know the things that government hided. I know that every country has its own way and reason to hide some things that the government doesn’t want to let the public knows, however, China is not just hiding, but also using China Central TV to spread out no objective truth, the government uses it to misleading the people even.

I will collect and present how Chinese government use CCTV as tool to ensure its dictatorship in three ways. First of all, CCTV is the only channel in the world right now will force every other channel in china to play the same show called “XinWenLianBo” everyday at 7 p.m.. Thin show is basically about news of government’s thoughts and the good things they did to the public, and for the international news, they are not always trying to present the objective truth and sometimes even has the trend of misleading. Secondly, as the one and only official channel, CCTV chose the news to broadcast, if some news related to any important people in government, then the news would not be broadcast in the show even this news has very serious influence to the public. For example, the famous ShanXi vaccine scandal was about the fake vaccine made lots of people death, when this scandal was told to the public, almost every local channel was broadcasting this news, however on the same day, CCTV even didn’t mention this news and the second day, all other channels stop broadcasting this news and the previous data was deleted.

I will basically focus on those topics to add in the kind as Criticism and Controversy, and try to use objective fact and words to make a supplement.

Controls on Television Entertainment in China.

In October 2011, the New York Times reported, China's media propaganda and censorship agency---the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television---ordered the country's 34 satellite channels limit themselves to two entertainment programs each week and a maximum of 90 minutes of entertainment content every day from 19:30 to 22:00. Broadcasters are also required to air at least two hours of state-approved news every evening between 06:00 and midnight and show at least two 30-minute news programmes between 18:00 and 23:30. The broadcasters were also told to disregard audience ratings in their programming decisions. The ministry said the measures were aimed at rooting out “excessive entertainment and vulgar tendencies." [Source: Sharon Lafraniere, Michael Wines and Edward Wong, New York Times, October 26, 2011]

Controls on Television for Propaganda

Since the born of China Central  Television,  it has a show called "Xin Wen Lian Bo" which is telling news happened in different area in China. However, at 7.p.m. everyday, this show will force all other channels in China to play it at the same time which means at 7.p.m. no matter which channel you choose you will be forced to watch "Xin Wen Lian Bo". And also, the news it broadcasts, are not always based on the objective truth but may have trend of misleading.

There was one very famous news that was even deleted from its official website and that news was widely broadcast the last day. The news is basically about a fake vaccine made people who took it dead and it still didn't stop its production, as the first day news said this cases would be followed, however, it was deleted and nobody even mentioned it like it never happened. Even one website which keep following broadcast this news was banned.

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