Dr who sounds like ours guy that its easy h. L. A. To try that trash out of health but. What about the way chinese are trying to show you a shot. At all they already heavily on social media hello im Richard Gilbert and youre at the listening post among the media stories that were covering this week transparency the manage time beijings approach to controlling the narrative on the coronavirus remains a work in progress and trying to keep fear of the pandemic contained. In places like germany theyre loud they can bully they call themselves nationalists and they are some of indias most watched news actors plus the New Territory government in manila having gone after news websites it doesnt like now targeting the countrys biggest broadcaster. 2 weeks ago when we 1st examined the official chinese response to the corona Virus Outbreak beijing was in damage control mode the government had been slow to respond its Media Outlets had downplayed the seriousness of the threat and lives were lost as a result one of those deaths a doctor in the frontline city of hahn has caused collective outrage online. Was amongst the 1st to raise the alarm he was then taken into custody and forced to confess to wrongdoing rumormongering for doing his job essentially it is rare for the chinese to openly criticize their government rarer still when those criticisms on social media are not instantly deleted by censors however for a brief period of time thats what was happening online for chinese journalists there was a temporary window that opened for some hard hitting investigative reporting it appears that window has closed again the term that china watchers are now using to describe a james approach to the coronavirus story is inherently oxymoronic they call it managed transparency our starting point this week is ground 0 the city of. Of all the casualties of this coronavirus none has made more news in china than dr levy when the ng on december 30th leave used a closed messaging group to tell colleagues of the seriousness of the strain he said he did not intend the message to be shared which it was he was then taken into custody and forced to apologize for spreading rumors contracted the virus a coming on february 7th and unleashing a wave of fury online the likes of which the chinese authorities seldom see or tolerate loads of china watchers. Already know that the public was angry about the handling of them and probably about the coming up of fact wouldnt back that kind of outpouring of anger. Or the government sure emerged on why people remark pulling the also thing like i want freedom of speech away because of chinas equivalent of traitor and then that hash tag was for that 1800000 times before you got deleted when there are so many people feel so strongly about his death it will be wise for the authorities to really just like a lot of the comments the use of the machine to shoot them and try. To state media did you report on his death but the language they use are mostly focusing on you know we have so much respect for this doctor for what he did as a doctor not not for what he did as a whistleblower. Just that you can you teach and thats the she is a cook dont you think. That tin tin was one that. They are focusing on one part they want people to focus on about dr leone but its not really on the part that people care about mostly about the freedom of speech citizens have taken the coronavirus story into their own hands and devices that is the biggest single change since the sars coronavirus story of 2003 the chinese had Internet Access back then but social media was not anything like the news source it is today. A lawyer turned blogger has documented the hospitals overloaded with patients friend been whos in the clothing business posted images of body bags destined for the crematorium. Margot. And then had his phone camera rolling when the authorities came calling all and only a little more and you know. Most are now as you want to be in custody. But there are another 50000000 people under quarantine and they have a lot of time to tell their story the social media role. Covering this crisis has been truly unprecedented its been the 1st epidemic the 1st major disease in china has been through a televised so whether youre at home alone. Relatives or not being able to buy groceries if youre a doctor fighting the disease in a hospital thats overcrowded or if youre patient was struggling to get into the hospital were seeing the stories through social media anybody whos far away from an including International Observers have been able to witness and even feel what its like to be part of something that i think is. Moving its emotional but it also puts a lot of pressure on state authorities at the local and central level to react to meet this disease and to bring people together. But also exposes the countries primary news channels which for weeks were providing far less information than social media was domestic news outlets especially National Channels and newspapers have been state controlled ever since the communists took power more than 70 years ago there have been some temporary openings for more adventurous reporting most recently during the time of the big olympics in 2008 those freedoms were already disappearing by 2012 when she jinping took power by 2016 the president was touring the Media Outlets demanding in his words their absolute loyalty to the party in thought politics and action on the coverage of the coronavirus that is what the president lucian hosts an Opinion Program at the state funded channel c g t yes there is a fundamental. Premise thats wrong with this question of saying that the state media might have a different agenda in not reporting the truth of the story basically when c. C. T. V. In your words interviewed one of the experts in china on fighting the virus on the 20th of january and 1. And. That is when the public was alerted to the potential scale to potential severity of this epidemic so i dont think it is anywhere in the state media that was suppressing the severity of the situation. But the interview refers to on january 20th came more than 3 weeks after dr levy when liang had put the word out it was all there has been some 1st rate journalism produced by chinese news outlets just not on National Television and not for long. Media group specializes in periodicals and online content the economist magazine has called the rarest of things in china a courageous media outlet pursuing the truth in the face of intimidation they produce probably the best about our so the heart of this like for parts coverage about the virus reveals how forgiving and how the government probably has covered up some of the facts about the paris and late reporting of the barras public crisis. That was quite remarkable. Because usually they would be subject to heavy. But the freedom citation had to do that reporting would prove temporary by early february the window for most of that kind of journalism had slammed shut the Chinese Media have since shifted their focus to the Positive Side of the story doctors officials and aid workers all described terms the standard for that kind of messaging the emphasis on the collective response over the search for accountability is said by state control channels like c g t n and the c. C. T. V. Almost every report. Portos you see the most the positive report celebrating the heroes of the virus the medical profession or is there fishers who are fighting and the public itself. You know. Young and here we are you know together in every chinese person has to fight and were there for the nation and of course president seeking self has appeared in the limelight of the media for the 1st time since they all break up the crisis. So these are the visitor to noko residential area in beijing he was wearing a mask and he was talking to the local people and people were responding very actively in high spirit i would say to me and i you know that piece of video i noticed was watched almost 15000000 times and got over 200000 thumbs up so i think people in general responded well to his message that he is there you know with the people being with the masses and showing his leadership went to this hospital in beijing and see video chatting with doctors from behind once you we have to melt a stat has never seen a fruit on so far but what we really want is to really know what the Central Government has in plan to really cure the disease to really address the issue really responds to peoples demands for freedom of speech but i think caution stay probably will never get answered. Were discussing in other media story thats come across our radar this week with maria ressa a filipino journalist who runs one of the countrys most popular news websites rapper maria thanks for joining us here at the listening post today as always nice to see you this past week the solicitor general in manila moved to shut down the countrys leading broadcast news outlet a. B. S. C. B. S. Which like your rappler has been a vocal critic of president. A socalled war on drugs can you walk us through the case the prosecutors are making against a b s c b all right here the the basis of it the office of the solicitor general says that theres this obscure legal term quo were on tow that they should never have been given a franchise in the 1st place because of violations. Because they charge for television and then the 2nd one is because they have something similar to what rappler has philippine depositary receipts that allow foreign control. Both of those have been taken up in different ways and have been shown by legal experts to be flawed to give us a little more detail on these pedia ours because i know a lot of people who from outside the philippines find them a little bit tongue found it so media in the philippines has to be 100 percent filipino owned but to deal with this because its not just media other Companies Like Telecommunications Infrastructure they have Foreign Ownership restrictions to be able to have Foreign Investors a vehicle called p. D. R. s philippine depositary receipts was created and is constitutionally recognised a p. B. R. Does not give ownership over a share it doesnt give a vote it doesnt give any kind of control what it does do is foreign investor can come in and have economic returns you beat the case one reason for that was that your foreign investor peer or maybe are divested himself of the shares and i understand donated his shares to the peano charities do you see any kind of possibility that a. B. S. C b and could end up with a similar outcome approach i think we have to hold the line p d rs are legal in fact in our court of appeals case the court of appeals said they are legal thats not how you beat the case is it we havent beaten the case yet in 2018 i had 11000. And investigations against me and rappler in 2019 i had to post bail 8 times to be free so least these cases are still ongoing we did not get around it by having Pierre Omidyar dhoni this is something that that they did because they wanted to remove in their mind remove they did this independently of rappler but i continue to challenge is this is a point of law so do territories starts with the media but you told me that you are seeing signs that this government is now going further looking at other institutions and trying to perhaps capture some of them is is it any coincidence that he started with the media not at all you go back to 1970 s. And then you go back again to 986 any time someone wants to take control of government the 1st step is to control the media thats the 1st step of Ferdinand Marcos in 1972 he shut down a. B. S. C. B. S. And controlled it took it over in 1986 the people power revolt that that got rid of mark the 1st step was to take over the Television Networks this is the 21st century version of that but whats so interesting is you dont even have to declare martial law to try to control media you have you hang a damocles sword over owners their families you threaten them with legal cases and you can control them this way maria ressa thanks for talking to us again so that best of luck with your case thanks. Indias news landscape is unique the country has almost 400 news channels broadcasting 247 in 22 official languages over the past decade indians of witness the rise of a new breed of news anchor brash aggressive on apologetically nationalist they trade in conflict fear and spectacle its a formula that tends to pay off in the ratings and online a prime practitioner of this new style is are not goswami of republic t. V. Goswami has an enormous following particularly among supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modis b j p government and he has plenty of critics who call his coverage of issues pertaining to Indian Muslims partisan and divisive they say that hes abandoned journalism altogether the listening posts i mean actually ravi now on a broadcaster who courts controversy and has pioneered an aggressive high decibel brand of nationalistic News Coverage in india you should be a lot of people like you should be. Silent when there is a camera around you know something. That bombards the indian airwaves is among the loudest most controversial voices again speak to the new i dont know what do you want about it i dont want doing to your body. So it was something of an exclusive. And indeed comedian could not come tweeted a video of im not being im kind of true sticky quiet. Calm had caught me on a flight that interaction was not pleasant. So i was like no other day i should go and. He said im going to one and then he said he doesnt want to talk to me he doesnt wondering if and then i. We others hope evolution is true and then i said i will do exactly what his reporters were. Able to. Articulate i want you to believe. That were due for which i am not sorry at all because he had gotten laid or believed or believed that. Confronting someone in midair sticking a camera in their face peppering them with questions is unconventional and bordering on. Swami had reason to be aggrieved except that this is a tactic his own reporters use lets play the interview. Just like i was i mean. This is all right mr von. What cannot manage to do with that one act and i would call it a performance rather is to bring our attention back to how utterly ugly it is im not saying it was an unpleasant but it was a democratic activists and the doing what arnold was funny does the in and day out if it made even 10 people think and question how we have normalised this and i think his end of a job when are not does his primetime show you know scream he does have his perilous saw this time around it was based on his own medicine our hold closely with our now for the last several years. Probably he hasnt screamed at me. The swami is the face of republican a channel in which he holds a majority stake his core owner is a parliamentarian and a member of indias ruling party the right wing b. G. P. The channel was launched 3 years into the movie governments 1st term in 2017 when course what he told his audience what it would be getting i have a nash and i want to say to. Mash. It wasnt me john who saw me wraps himself in the flag whether hes covering pakistan the indian army. And any story involving Prime Minister not in there more than. A fight with the boss. And when the baggage are known it happens and the Prime Minister who hardly gives interviews and never holds press conferences has sat down with me for an one on one question. A movie has also attended the annual events hosted by the channel the socalled republic summits. You can go on as unapologetic in their support of what the us fox news in the us is put its backing of donald trump the relationship however goes back further than that for 10 years up until 2016 swami was the editor in chief of another channel times now where he honed his act into what it is today i mumble slummy really burst onto the scene during the 2008 dead in the back i remember watching him back then when i was a journalism student. And this was completely new for india back then and very angry. So i now was army kind of took on that space of the aggressive fox news ish anchor and from there only very successfully tapped the middle class range or angle against politicians against corruption or republic the real reform. Of india but there is a large chunk of population in india that love to water publicly we are not good for me so are we going to get our entire population of water yes there have been instances of the 3rd Weather Report card has been problematic this moment we see a trend unfortunately in india where the media just goes berserk we need to take a call and see if we need to take a backseat and just report this report thats what we heard we did question an interview with Arnab Goswami for the steel port we were told neither he nor anyone at republic would engage with the foreign media and their quote lopsided approach that response is consistent with course one is frequent on our critiques of Media Outlets both in india and abroad for their reporting on indian issues that he dismisses as wrongheaded and weak. To swami issues those judgements from his anchor desk. Which lied about kashmir where he beats panelists and peddles hashtags that ranged from the provocative to the insanely in the elian media landscape which t. V. Is selfregulated holding the public or any channel to account is near impossible in fact last year when the National Broadcasting Standards Association a group comprised of representatives from indian channels issued an edict that the public and an apology for an ethics violation of the channel didnt just dismiss the order it spearheaded the formation of a new selfregulatory body the News Broadcasters Federation the president of the federation. Swamis high decibel aggressive style has inspired many others from. Command on times now to me steve kind of news 18 and do because on a channel called. I think what he is normalised in propaganda masquerading as journalism fame. That he is saying on primetime is also then circulated on whatsapp and circulated on social media there is a section public that is only receiving them and obviously i mean to some extent you can blame them for believing that there must be some truth to it if not the whole truth i think whats worrying with people like me is that he can go on a news channel and vanish people is and he national the despicable words and the Anti National conduct of people like your mom or not be on the right see things like we dont need to get about human rights in this or just brand people as terrorists. Get out of my career i dont know where we will have Democratic Institutions that have. Such misinformation and such hateful propaganda and when you dont have that you essentially have. Journalists like this who can really tell a peoples perception and spread mass propaganda. With politics and media are increasingly polarized around the world. Has become the normal t. V. Hosts do it on the air people do to each other online and in a comedian felt it was the only way to take on a news anchor. The consequences of trolling arent felt equally the canal camera the pushback to his ambush of course army was led by the countrys minister of aviation his tweet committee one Indian Airline for putting carbon on a 6 month no fly list resulted in 3 other airlines following suit for camera though the focus of the entire incident demeans Arnab Goswami. All i know is that when we watch this. Show. And entertained you very well im a polarizing regular and that. Anything that he said going to. Realize what he wants to. Work. Why are you were you spoken to much. And finally a Hashtag Campaign created to combat not the coronavirus itself but some of the side effects that the pandemic has had on peoples fears some of which can be distinctly racist i am not a virus is trending in lots of different languages on twitter the threads are packed with stories of people who live in europe who may have asian features even though some of them have never been to asia being given away too much personal space by white people in germany and all on channel funded by Public Television theyre a channel called funk has produced a video called when panic leads to racism it plays the story for laughs that makes a serious point or 2 its a virus not the plague and racism can be contagious well see you next time youre listening post. Im. Surprised not to. Have. Everything its not a one off. And. Im going to i want to i. Think. The media know. That im an. Endless man on this planet and man on the back at the end of. The whos. He in this movie i found the stand i now find a corner and he has any. Typos in. The 1st. In mind with that. And can with. We understand the differences similarities of cultures across the world so no matter what weve been using calendar for that matter to you. Hello Martin Taylor in london the top stories on our 0 the saudi u. A. E. Led coalition has confirmed one of its planes has gone down in the al jawf region of northern yemen if you rebels are broadcast video which they say shows the moment a Royal Saudi Air force tornado fighter jet was shot down on friday. The media say at least 30 civilians were killed in retaliatory ass trikes in the same region because Mission Statement says theres the possibility of what it calls Collateral Damage to civilians my wonder shara is aljazeera senior political analyst he says this incident shows that saudis are losing in the ongoing 5 year war if the whole thing is
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