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- Title: Overseas Coverage and Local Reactions: A Case Study of Media Coverage, Translation, And Conflict (Case Study)
- Author : China Media Research
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 229 KB
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The year 2008 was eventful for China's mainland: People had fought natural disasters (i.e. the winter storms hitting provinces of Hunan, Hubei, Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui and the municipality of Shanghai and the devastating earthquake in southern Sichuan Province) and confronted artificial calamities (i.e. the damaging effects of the March 14th Riot in Lhasa and the melamine-tainted diary products). In addition, biased overseas coverage of the Tibet Problem and incidents during the Summer Olympics torch relay had frustrated the general public in China, who believed that unbalanced overseas reports had brought shame on the country and thus caused a loss of honor, and found some ways to vent their resentments and frustrations. Media coverage plays a critical role in expression, construction, dissemination and reproduction of the dominant ideology or prevailing perspectives because of "the very scale of the modern mass media and the extremely high level of exposure of whole populations to a relatively homogeneous output" (Fairclough, 2001). Though the significance of a balanced treatment of different sources and perspectives in the domestic media of a particular country has drawn academic attention (Stephen & Scott, 2000; Fairclough, 2001), the social impacts and ethical issues of global media coverage of local affairs in a cross-boundary context have not yet been given due consideration. This article examines excerpts of Tibet-related media coverage in the first half of 2008 from Western news outlets, whose controversial content (e.g. misuses of news photos or TV footage shot in other Asian countries, misleading captions for images) or conflict-generating discourse had been made known to Chinese citizens by different sources of information (e.g. reports from the local media, weblog entries, online forum posts) and regarded as biased or taken as "anti-China" by Chinese nationals living in and outside the Chinese mainland. Information on the subsequent reactions of Chinese nationals as well as the Chinese perspective on the controversial notion of historical Tibet has also been provided in order to give a better understanding of the conflicting ideologies. In doing so, this article intends to contribute to research on the cross-cultural dimension and ethical implications of media coverage of conflict and the role of translation in the dissemination and reception of external media coverage of internal affairs in a cross-boundary context.