From the Washington Post, a look at the nightly CCTV news broadcast and its failure to change with the times:
In the face of radical economic and social changes over the past two decades, the choreography of news has helped China retain its monopoly on power. All television stations and newspapers remain government-controlled; news reports are routinely organized by propaganda officials and bolstered by interviews with local Communist Party secretaries.
The Internet has created some openings for disseminating uncensored news. But on the opposite end of the spectrum is the official 7 p.m. “Network News Broadcast,” the government’s flagship program. It has long occupied a status all its own, confined to old-style Communist orthodoxy with a tenacity that has its anchors looking like holdouts from the 1970s and its reports on public affairs like a party bulletin board. [Full text]
