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...NOTEBOOK Afghanistan: Still Fighting China: Must-see CCTV Kashmir: More Killings...
...NOTEBOOK Afghanistan: Still Fighting China: Must-see CCTV Kashmir: More Killings...
...avoided one thing: the news. In 2001, for instance, the attack on New York City's World Trade Center reached mainland airwaves a full day after the buildings had collapsed. But the second Gulf War is giving Chinese broadcast journalists a chance to redeem themselves. Two China Central Television (CCTV) channels are offering around-the-clock coverage, while others are showing large blocks of war news, mostly live and largely free of governmental interference. "We're washing a bad taste out of our mouths," says a CCTV producer proudly...
...Beijing is creating entities similar to SMEG nationwide. Beginning in 2001, the government forced cable networks to merge with terrestrial networks and smaller stations at county levels to merge with bigger entities. At the national level, it has grouped China's most valuable media assets, including China Central Television (CCTV) and the country's cable-backbone network, into the mammoth China Radio Film and Television Group and put senior party propaganda officials in charge. The goal, according to William Soileau, a lawyer at Baker MacKenzie who follows China's media, is to build "a small number of state-run media...
...month. Once almighty syndicates are losing scores of men and millions of dollars because of the disruption to their businesses. Arun Gawli, who describes himself as a former Mafia don, sees himself as a virtual prisoner in his own mansion, living behind a phalanx of armed guards, CCTV and four separate locked gates, out of fear of what he calls "police contract killings." "In a democracy, these sorts of killings are unlawful," he says. Gawli, 51, claims he has lost a total of 60 associates to encounters in the past decade. "O.K., there were days a while back when...