{"id":4569,"date":"2015-01-23T20:58:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T01:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=4569"},"modified":"2015-01-23T21:05:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T02:05:55","slug":"china-leads-the-world-in-media-corruption-says-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/china-leads-the-world-in-media-corruption-says-expert","title":{"rendered":"China leads the world in media corruption, says expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By David Bandurski | Posted on 2015-01-23<\/p>\n<p>In September last year, as China saw a series of media scandals, we ran several articles addressing the phenomenon of media corruption. We refer readers back to<!--more--> \u201cWho Warped China\u2019s Media?\u201c; \u201cChina\u2019s Corrupt Media\u201c; and \u201cWhy News Extortion is So Hard to Uncover.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today we offer an excellent follow-up on the issue from one of China\u2019s most knowledgeable media scholars, Foreign Languages University professor and former CMP fellow Zhan Jiang (\u5c55\u6c5f).<\/p>\n<p>Back on October 22, 2014, Zhan Jiang took part in an online discussion at 21ccom.net about media corruption, its causes and possible solutions. The website published the full text of Zhan\u2019s interview yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2015\/01\/zhan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4570\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2015\/01\/zhan-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"zhan\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2015\/01\/zhan-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2015\/01\/zhan.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>ABOVE: Professor Zhan Jiang discusses media corruption in China with 21ccom.net in October 2014.<\/p>\n<p>As much discussion of media corruption inside China centers on rotten journalists, as though the only relevant dimension is moral, Zhan Jiang\u2019s interview is refreshingly frank. He explains why media corruption is endemic and, you might say, institutionalized.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve translated only about half of the interview, but we strongly encourage readers of Chinese to study the rest.<\/p>\n<p>Host: Hello everyone, I\u2019m 21ccom.net editor Jiang Baoxin (\u848b\u4fdd\u4fe1). I\u2019m also the hosts of today\u2019s conversation. Hello, Professor Zhan. This is the second time you\u2019ve been a guest in the studio at 21ccom.net, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p>Zhan Jiang: That\u2019s right. It\u2019s been two or three years since the last time.<\/p>\n<p>Host: After we pre-announced this online discussion, we promoted it on our WeChat public account as well, and web users submitted many valuable questions. Today we\u2019d like to seek your expertise on these questions, which I\u2019ve gathered today along with my own questions. Why don\u2019t you first say hello to our web users.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cmp.hku.hk\/2015\/01\/23\/37921\/\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David Bandurski | Posted on 2015-01-2 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/china-leads-the-world-in-media-corruption-says-expert\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[1351,1135],"views":3851,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4572,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions\/4572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}