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Uses Hong Kong''s transfer from Britain to China to explore how media coverage is guided by ideological struggle.

Focusing on the global media coverage of Hong Kong''s transfer from Britain to China, Global Media Spectacle explores how the world media plan, operate, compete, and produce a historical record during significant global events. The authors interviewed seventy-six print and television reporters from the United States, Britain, the People''s Republic of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, Canada, and Japan to delve into the revealing world of writing first drafts of history from reporters'' vantage points. Punctuated with witty and incisive examples, the book provides a useful description of contestation and alliance, themes and variations, and convergence and divergence between and within various blocs of nations.

Global Media Spectacle News War Over Hong Kong

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A Paperback by Chin-Chuan Lee, Joseph Man Chan, Zhongdang Pan

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    Publisher: State University Press of New York (SUNY)
    Publication Date: 10/10/2002 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780791454725, 978-0791454725
    ISBN10: 079145472X
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    Communication studies Journalism Media studies

    Description

    Book Synopsis

    Uses Hong Kong''s transfer from Britain to China to explore how media coverage is guided by ideological struggle.

    Focusing on the global media coverage of Hong Kong''s transfer from Britain to China, Global Media Spectacle explores how the world media plan, operate, compete, and produce a historical record during significant global events. The authors interviewed seventy-six print and television reporters from the United States, Britain, the People''s Republic of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, Canada, and Japan to delve into the revealing world of writing first drafts of history from reporters'' vantage points. Punctuated with witty and incisive examples, the book provides a useful description of contestation and alliance, themes and variations, and convergence and divergence between and within various blocs of nations.

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