Susan Shirk Comments on Journalistic Integrity of CCTV America
China's Programming for U.S. Audiences: Is it News or Propaganda?
03/23/2012
Ray Suarez,
PBS NewsHour
Susan Shirk appeared on PBS NewsHour and shared her thoughts on the transparency of the China Central Television network.
China Central Television has opened a new broadcast bureau in Washington, D.C., and is now producing news programs in English for an American audience. Leaders at CCTV America say they uphold traditional journalistic values, but critics say the programs may look like news, but they really are propaganda.
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Susan Shirk is director of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and Ho Miu Lam professor of China and Pacific Relations at IR/PS.
In 1993, she founded, and continues to lead, the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), an unofficial “track-two” forum for discussions of security issues among defense and foreign ministry officials and academics from the United States, Japan, China, Russia, and the Koreas.
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