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...People's Liberation Army garrison is billeted on the studio lot, and an armed soldier commands the entrance to the main newsroom. Foreigners usually need layers of approval to arrange a visit-but not John Terenzio. During a recent news broadcast, the American media consultant sat casually among a team of Chinese producers in the control room critiquing the show. "I thought maybe I was a dope to go for two anchors," Terenzio observes, "but I wanted to build a bit of chemistry." When news presenters Chris Gelken and Jacqueline Chan abandon their scripts to banter amiably about the stock...
...Terenzio's job is to make it even better. As a part-time adviser to CCTV International's 24-hour English-language news channel, the independent producer is the first foreigner charged with putting an internationally friendly face on the mainland's propaganda machine. As if that weren't odd enough, his salary is paid by News Corp.-the global media conglomerate whose U.S.-based news channel, Fox News, is widely perceived as unabashedly pro-American and whose chairman, Rupert Murdoch, once infuriated China's leaders by stating that satellite-TV systems posed a threat to "totalitarian regimes everywhere...
...viewers, channels are using the war to differentiate themselves. China's English-language channel, CCTV 9, which broadcasts to the mainland and abroad, has set its eyes on a larger market. "It's positioning itself as an alternative to Western and Arab media around the world," says John Terenzio, a former news executive for ABC and NBC who is advising the channel on its coverage...
...real owners of the Concession are now: Henry Woodhouse (original name Mario Terenzio Enrico Casalegno), W. E. D. Stokes (TIME, Nov. 12), Charles A. Barnard, Colonel Clayton-Kennedy, Admiral Colby M. Chester...