This book puts CGTN (formerly CCTV-News) and the BBC''s international television news head-to-head, interrogating competing ''truths'' in the exacting business of news reporting.
Written by a media scholar and former long-serving BBC News journalist, Seeking Truth in International TV News asks if China''s English-language television news programmes are little more than state propaganda, and if the BBC can be viewed as a universal news standard to which all other broadcasters should aspire. Over 8 years of Xi Jinping''s rule, it investigates how the international TV news channels of CGTN and the BBC reported on Chinese politics, protests in Hong Kong, disasters, China in Africa, and insurgency and its suppression in Xinjiang. The comparison reveals uneven editorial imperatives at the Chinese broadcaster and raises questions about the BBC''s professed tenets of balance and impartiality. It also illustrates how Chinese journalists commit ''small acts of journalism''
