China Digital Times (CDT) » Tag: time http://chinadigitaltimes.net Watching China Politics from Cyberspace Sat, 26 May 2012 23:25:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 “Popularity Does Not Always Rhyme With Quality”http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2011/04/popularity-does-not-always-rhyme-with-quality/ http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2011/04/popularity-does-not-always-rhyme-with-quality/#comments Fri, 15 Apr 2011 04:12:15 +0000 Samuel Wade http://chinadigitaltimes.net/?p=120317 © Samuel Wade for China Digital Times (CDT), 2011. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.usPost tags: Global Times, SARFT, television, time, travel Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall ]]> New guidelines discouraging time travel on Chinese TV have hit the Western news recently. The Global Times doesn’t see what all the fuss is about:

Censoring media content that is inappropriate locally is part of government responsibilities everywhere. A classic example is when the US’ FCC imposed a high fine on CBS for airing an incident when Janet Jackson accidentally exposed her breast during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show.

Consequently, a five-second broadcast delay was imposed on live broadcasts to avoid this type of offensive material being shown.

Admittedly, some guidelines are not supported by the domestic audience. To maintain the viability of TV and movie content, satisfying the audiences’ demands, and keeping an ethical bottom line about what is broadcast, the has quite the juggling job on its hands ….

What are Western media worried about? Either on the freedom of creation or in finding fault with Chinese’s broadcasting supervisor, exaggerating SARFT’s guidelines over dramas is pointless.

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© Japhet Weeks for China Digital Times (CDT), 2008. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.usPost tags: 2008 Sichuan earthquake, photography, time Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall ]]> Time’s China blog has an interesting link to a section of the 2008 Pingyao International Photography Festival dedicated to 50 residents of the quake-stricken town of Wenchuan. The residents were given point-and-shoot cameras by Chinese Internet company Netease and asked to record daily after the deadly earthquake that struck Sichuan last May.

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Wenchuan neighbors smoking a cigarette. / Ni Qunyan

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