China launches Arabic TV channel.7/25/2009 6:38:50 AM China has launched a 24-hour Arabic-language television channel aimed at addressing "distorted" views of China in the Middle East and North Africa. The satellite channel, launched on Saturday, is expected to reach about 300 million people in 22 countries. China Central Television (CCTV CCTV abbr. closed-circuit television CCTV closed-circuit television ) already broadcasts foreign language channels in English, Spanish and French. Zhang Changming, deputy president of CCTV, said that through the Arabic channel "the world can know China and China can know the rest of the world even better". "Our principle is to be real, to be objective, to be accurate and transparent. CCTV will present the world with the real China," he said at the launch. The channel will mainly broadcast news, but Zhang promised it would also feature entertainment and educational programmes. 'Good journalism' Ying Chan, the director of Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. University's journalism and media studies centre, told Al Jazeera This article is about the TV network and channel. For other uses, see Jazira. Al Jazeera (Arabic: الجزيرة, al-ğazīrä that China saw the channel as a way to counter "unfair" portrayls of China in the international media. "There's no question that the Middle East is a very strategic area and China wants its voice heard there," she said. "They want to announce their policies more to the world, and they also felt that the international media, led by the Western media, has not been fair to China." China exerts a great deal of control over its media and often censors This is an incomplete list of censors of the Roman Republic
"It [CCTV] will face challenges in how much it will allow its own reporters to report news as it is, as it happened," Ying said. "I think CCTV, in order to gain influence, has to deliver good journalism." Investment plans CCTV has also said it plans to open more foreign bureaus. The Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post The South China Morning Post, together with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is a English-language newspaper of Hong Kong, with a circulation of 104,000. newspaper reported that Beijing was prepared to put 45 billion yuan Yuan (yüän), river, 540 mi (869 km) long, rising in S Guizhou prov. and flowing generally NE to Donting lake, Hunan prov., SE China. Navigation above Changde is limited by rapids to small craft. ($6.6bn) into the development of its media, an amount which could not be confirmed by Chinese sources. China's Arabic language Arabic language Ancient Semitic language whose dialects are spoken throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Though Arabic words and proper names are found in Aramaic inscriptions, abundant documentation of the language begins only with the rise of Islam, whose main texts channel joins other foreign government media networks broadcasting in Arabic. The UK's BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. launched its Arabic channel last year and the US set up al-Hurra, an Arabic-language channel based in Virginia, in 2004. Aljazeera.net 2003 - 2009 Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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