{"id":701597,"date":"2024-09-24T13:30:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T20:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=701597"},"modified":"2024-09-27T22:01:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T05:01:54","slug":"translations-real-reporters-are-rarer-than-pandas-we-cant-send-them-off-to-clown-around-at-the-olympics-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2024\/09\/translations-real-reporters-are-rarer-than-pandas-we-cant-send-them-off-to-clown-around-at-the-olympics-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Translations: \u201cReal Reporters Are Rarer Than Pandas. We Can\u2019t Send Them Off to Clown Around at the Olympics\u201d (3)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While China\u2019s athletes won glory in Paris at this year\u2019s Olympics<\/a> and Paralympics<\/a>, there was widespread agreement on Chinese social media that the country\u2019s reporters did not. Bloggers and athletes alike rolled their eyes at the inanity of the Chinese press corps\u2019 questions to competitors. One particular flashpoint was a comment by Nanfang Daily\u2019s Zhu Xiaolong, who questioned 17-year-old diving gold-medalist Quan Hongchan\u2019s educational level and emotional maturity<\/a> during a livestream. But the storm over Zhu\u2019s comments was a microcosm of broader discussion about the news media, their role in China today, and their capacity to fulfill it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This series of translations shows some examples. First, a post from WeChat public account\u00a0Wang Zuo Zhong You<\/a>\u00a0slammed reporters for puffing themselves up with intellectual pretensions and chasing clicks with vapid fluff<\/a>, rather than seriously focusing on the Games and athletes. The second installment, from \u201cHuman Swamp Excavator,\u201d argued that\u00a0Chinese authorities\u2019 cultivation of tameness and docility in the media at home has left the country toothless<\/a>\u00a0against fiercer predators on the international scene. Despite its more nationalist tone and broadsides against foreign media, the post was\u00a0removed from WeChat<\/a>, though it\u00a0remains online elsewhere<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the third piece below, from WeChat public account\u00a0Zhangjiang Celebrity<\/a>, a\u00a0former reporter looks at the Olympic debacle in the context of China\u2019s current media environment<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and the financial and political pressures on it (some explanatory links have been added):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It feels like the whole internet is roasting Olympic reporters and the mediocre standard of their interview questions, like they\u2019re all just there to buy soy sauce<\/a>. What a lot of people don\u2019t realize is that, in fact, these people can\u2019t really be considered reporters at all: at best, they\u2019re just propagandists. One of these propagandists asked Quan Hongchan, “People are always talking about how high you fly, how much you’ve achieved, but do you ever find it exhausting?” Is this kind of question strange? Not at all. It\u2019s their job to ask lofty questions. And it\u2019s not the answer that matters, but how they ask the question. They\u2019ve got their marching orders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[…] Real reporters in China are a rarer breed than pandas. We can\u2019t send them off to clown around at the Olympics\u2014we need them here at home, keeping an eye on the people\u2019s hardships, following up on the tanker truck [tainted cooking oil] scandal<\/a>, and digging into how the corpse-trafficking scheme<\/a> could have happened. Anyway, these real reporters probably couldn\u2019t afford a ticket to Paris. They\u2019re mostly at commercial media outlets like the Beijing News or Southern Weekly, which actually have to watch their costs and balance them with revenues\u2014unlike certain TV stations, news agencies, and newspaper conglomerates who can afford to kick back, thanks to their brand sponsorships or taxpayer funding, and who can send a hundred or a thousand reporters as easily as others might send one or two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No need to send teams of reporters to cover the Israel-Palestine or Russia-Ukraine wars or the Japanese tsunami\u2014but the Paris Olympics are a must. There\u2019s no risk, the travel is taxpayer-funded, it\u2019s great fodder for positive-energy propaganda, and any old question can hit the hot searches \u2026 what\u2019s to lose? A friend who\u2019s a journalist in the system told me privately that it\u2019s quite possible that the people on the scene aren\u2019t reporters at all, but rather department leaders. After all, who wouldn\u2019t jump at the chance to go on such a pleasant junket? It makes a lot of sense, when you think about it\u2014no wonder their questions exhibit such lofty vision and keen insight. No junior reporter could aspire to such a realm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is nothing new. Years back, when I was a reporter, some of us were already much better than others, as bad money drove out the good. When I went somewhere to gather news, local officials would watch me like a hawk as soon as they heard I was from Southern Weekly. But when they heard that another reporter was from some central state media outlet or another, they\u2019d assign them a car and driver and a guide while they reported. Why? Because Southern Weekly meant supervision by public opinion<\/a>\u2014it meant that if the local issue being reported on wasn\u2019t well-handled, these officials could lose their posts. But if someone was from central media, that meant they were one of their own, sent down by the upper ranks. Whatever local issue they were reporting on, they\u2019d probably let you save face; if you messed it up, they\u2019d probably just file an internal report or something, and there might still be some positive lines in it. So of course, you\u2019d roll out the welcome mat for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are there any good reporters in official media? Yes: past cohorts at [CCTV\u2019s] Focus Report and Oriental Horizon, for example, and some at Xinhua\u2014Zhou Yijun<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Shui Junyi<\/a>\u00a0both started at Xinhua. But where have they all gone now? Some left the country; some left the industry. Almost none of my colleagues and peers from back in the day are still working in news. It\u2019s not that everyone lost their ideals, or their interest in news work: it\u2019s just that that spirit isn\u2019t there anymore. Working in news is like competing in the Olympics\u2014you need that spirit if you\u2019re going to be able to give it your all. What that spirit is, I won\u2019t go into\u2014you can figure it out for yourself. [Chinese<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The incongruity between wrenching domestic stories and official celebrations of Olympic glory was also captured in a poem posted to the WeChat public account \u201cWater Ghost<\/a>,\u201d \u201cWatching the Olympics from the Floodwaters<\/strong><\/a>\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disaster never left them. Floodwaters surged in from all directions
\nTurning farmland into fishpond, and village pagodas
\ninto scattered islands
\nOnly the tall trees stayed standing
\nThose fleeing the waters waited for rescue boats, supplies,
\nAnd good news of newly captured Olympic gold. [\u2026] <\/p>\n\n\n\n

4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The orderly rows of corpses were like
\nOrderly rows of gold medals
\nWeeping blood, the crows cawed endlessly, and nested in the setting sun. [Chinese<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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