Word: zou
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Zou has worked as a journalist in China for three decades. She began her career in the country's domestic radio network just two years after the Communist government took power. She worked for the system until 1973 when she was transferred to Radio Peking, Communist China's worldwide broadcasting service...
This criticism of government officials is a new movement in the Chinese press, since the Chinese government began to relax its censorship. Zou claims that the Central Broadcasting Station she once worked for now criticizes government officials as high as ministers and even the vice-premier, but this is unusual, Zou admits. "You still have to have courage, much courage...
...Dezheng Zou (DOT-son ZOE) a fellow at Harvard's Nieman Foundation this year, acknowledges that the Chinese government has erred in the past. She cites the tumultuous Cultural Revolution during the sixties as an example. She even questions the party's current policies towards women's rights. Still, she is reluctant to criticize the Communist government's initiatives and voices her disapproval of young people in China who sometimes actively protest party policy...
...primary duty of the Chinese media, Zou says,-is to explain the party policy, "to make it clear to people...
...mission of Radio Peking and hence its practices are different from those of the domestic broadcasting service, Zou notes. She points out that, while domestic radio now criticizes government officials, Radio Peking generally does not. "There's no sense to broadcast this to people abroad," she says. Broadcasting critical stories to foreign audiences would not be helpful, she explains, because they are meant to spur improvement within China...