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A 4 page research paper that examines the Film Australia production "No Sex, No Violence, No News: The Battle to Control China's Airwaves," a documentary produced by Sharon Connolly, Susan Lambert and Stefan Moore. This 2002 film presents in-depth reporting on the functions of television within the developing Chinese capitalist economy. From this documentary, as well as other sources, the image of the Chinese media that emerges is that of a propaganda machine geared for promoting a high degree of consumerism, rather than as a medium for informing the public accurately concerning current events. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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2002 film presents in-depth reporting on the functions of television within the developing Chinese capitalist economy. From this documentary, as well as other sources, the image of the Chinese media
that emerges is that of a propaganda machine geared for promoting a high degree of consumerism, rather than as a medium for informing the public accurately concerning current events. As
this suggests, an analysis of the issues encompassed by this film demonstrates that the Chinese television is concerned primarily with achieving the economic goals of their government. The Film
Australia producers endeavored to be unbiased and fair in their evaluation of Chinese television. In the film Professor Leonard Chu, for example, of Hong Kong Baptist University, lauds the
new openness in Chinese television and its advent in the villages of China as a positive development (No sex, etc.). However, the interview with the director of Shanghai Communications
makes it patently clear that his only interest in television is as a tool for promoting Chinese consumerism. Substantiating this perspective, Gary Darcy, CEO of Murdochs Star Network asserts that
the Chinese government cancelled BBC News because of its foreign origin. Dr. Geremie Barme, a renowned authority on Chinese society, states, "Chinese television is a negation of the social contract
which provided free education, pensions, and social services to the people and peasants. Instead, the self-sacrificing citizen of the past is being turned into a consumer" (No sex, etc.). Additional
sources substantiate this conclusion. The Chinese population represents a market of 1.2 billion-plus, with just under 600 million under the age of 30 (Hatfield 20). Western consumer research groups
report that the Chinese young have not only been exposed to Western consumerism and its products, but they "want it all" and they want it now (Hatfield 20). They are
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