China
State media to Parteiorganen
The media must be loyal to the party and be positive to report, called on China’s President Xi Jinping. Critics fear that the already limited freedom of the press continue to be circumcised.
Sit in the broadcast Studio, Schaltgespräch in a foreign office, Like on Social media: China’s President and General Secretary of the Communist party of China, Xi Jinping, visited in his first public appointment in the new year journalists. However, not in talk shows or as an interviewee, but as a Manager. Xi Jinping made the state television CCTV, the official Agency Xinhua and the propaganda paper Volkszeitung his Aufwartungen. All three state media are dependent on the government and the Ministry of Radio, Film and television monitors. Together, they have a dominant market Position.
According to Xinhua, has Xi the journalists asked, “for the will and the positions of the party, to the authority of the party and the solidarity in the party to defend.”
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“Lack of security”
Since Xi at the end of 2012 to the General Secretary of the Communist party of China was elected, he presents himself like as a strong leader in China. For David Bandurski, a researcher for the China Media Project at the University of Hong Kong, the taxis occurs when the state media alldings an expression for a “lack of security”. In an Interview with Deutsche Welle says Bandurski: “For China’s leadership seems a matter of urgency, the public flow of information and the media control. The government does not believe that the Public is worn. Otherwise it would be a control of the media is not necessary at all.”
China was in a difficult Transition period, continues Bandurski fort. The growth had slowed down, the social conflicts culminated to. The legitimacy of the government under the sole leadership of the Communist party stand for debate. “In these strong words to the media resonates a touch of Verzweiflungen and helplessness with” said Bandurski.
Xi Jinping on a visit to the Chinese Staatsfernsehn CCTV
Complex Society
Nearly 40 years after the Reform and Opening of China, the company diversified, especially what the social life and the ideology of management, says Zhan Jiang, Journalistikprofessor at the Foreign Studies University in Beijing. To the great challenge of the increased diversity to encounter, wool Xi Jinping his will first, for the “sake of the party” and then also in Public, to enforce.
In China’s press we read today, again Propagandaslogans from the time of Mao TSE. China’s Public to do about large Concerns, believes David Bandurski. It is a sign of social Regression. Also: “We are watching a repeat of the censorship, in the many contradictions hide.” Biased reporting is the watchword of the hour.
It was under Hu Jintao, predecessor of Xi Jinpings, yet different. Hu Jintao still had a privately organised press and the rise of social media in addition to the Parteiorganen approved. However, it is true, for a long time that the party and the government, depending on the composition, different with the media deal, says Zhan. It could always have been different rules applied. Now wanted the party to have total control over the entire press, the only “with one voice” to speak to her.