Beijing Escorts: Can Chinese media rule the airwaves?
Beijing, China (CNN) — At a time when many Western media outlets are contracting, Chinese media outlets are expanding, rapidly.
Beijing is pouring billions into the country’s state-run media machine, which is churning out new TV networks, radio stations and newspapers aimed at foreign audiences.
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Ku says the network, located in a high-rise only minutes away from CCTV’s Beijing headquarters, has run sensitive stories on prostitution, abused children and black jails. Last June, he said, BON TV reported on “media reaction” to the anniversary of the military crackdown on demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in 1989 — a taboo topic that is rarely, if ever, mentioned by government news agencies.
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“Americans are suspicious of them,” said Jeremy Goldkorn, founder of the Beijing-based Danwei.org, a site that covers media in China. “No one is going to take them seriously.”
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