Category Archives: Media and Advertising

Is science sacrificed in the pursuit of TV ratings?

CCTV’s ‘Approaching Science’ (走近科学) is accused of being pseudo-scientific. Producer Zhang Guofei (张国飞) says that tricks are needed to hold viewers’ interest.

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Parsing the Babel cuts

Two different news reports on the cuts to the mainland Chinese version of Babel.

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Gay chat show on Phoenix Online

Translations of reports on a new Phoenix TV show on homosexual themes.

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Beijing Newspeak

Beijing Newspeak is a new blog about China written by a foreign journalist working as a sub-editor for state-owned news agency Xinhua. He seems a little more willing to spill the dirt than Positive Solutions, another foreign blogger who works … Continue reading →

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China Businesscast: Tom Doctoroff of JWT

Tom Doctoroff is CEO of JWT Greater China and author of the book ‘Billions: Selling to the New Chinese Consumer’.

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Thoughts on pixelization

Mosaic pixelization is no guarantee of anonymity.

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Beijing will allow provincials into the capital for the Olympics

According to Sina.com (in Chinese), the vice-secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee says outsiders will not be prevented from coming to Beijing during the Olympics

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Self-esteem for domestic cinema

Mirror reports that SARFT frowns on spoofs that attack the film industry.

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Cartoon violence raises hackles

Rainbow Cat and Blue Rabbit (虹猫蓝兔七侠传) gets pulled from CCTV. Censorship?

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Mature content

Roland Soong of ESWN writes from New York: I tried to access Danwei from my New York City office and I got this message: Access Denied (content_filter_denied) You have been denied access to the requested URL: Category: Adult/Mature Content;News/Media This … Continue reading →

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