Behind the news

Author: China Central Television News Commentary Department
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Since the book is titled Behind the News, it naturally includes some behind-the-scenes stories for you to hear. The News Commentary Department of CCTV's News Program Center is responsible for a total of fourteen programs, and during most of the important time slots each day, their programs accompany you, telling you almost everything they know and what you want to know. As the saying goes, "There are stories both on and off the screen," and this book tells you things that happen outside the screen but are closely related to the programs and to you—such as the debates behind politics, the news behind the news, and the entertainment behind entertainment.
No matter what promises you may have made to a "source" beforehand—whether it's changing voices or adding mosaics—it's merely a psychological comfort for the "source" and a self-deception for their small environment of life and work. This is something everyone is well aware of. —Liang Jianzeng
I read an incisive question online once: "Who do you think you are? You're just a journalist. How can you ask Liu Shuwei this way?" So, who is Liu Shuwei? Liu Shuwei is a simple, conscientious, courageous scholar who speaks the truth. But by chance, in our program, Liu Shuwei became a hero fighting against the powerful. This was not our intention either. I asked Liu Shuwei if she would still write and publish a 600-word article if she knew it would put her in such a predicament. Liu Shuwei said without hesitation, "No." —Wang Zhong
I often think that using a camel to describe the overall image of Chinese farmers is quite fitting. There is an Arab proverb: A master loaded an old camel with countless goods. Seeing that the camel made no sound, he wanted to see if it could carry even more, so he gently added a single stalk of straw. Unexpectedly, it was this single stalk of straw that caused the camel to collapse. Clearly, what crushed the camel was not the last stalk of straw, but the unbearable weight already on its back. —Yang Chun
When Awen began to speak, it sounded like incoherent murmurs, because in the more than a year of her dislocated life, she had no chance to say all this. She kept returning to that place in her nightmares—wearing the sleepwear she wore when she left the drug rehabilitation center, standing on that street, waiting to sell herself. "Is your drug rehabilitation center saving people or destroying them?" she said, trembling all over. —Chai Jing
Since the book is titled Behind the News, it naturally includes some behind-the-scenes stories for you to hear. The News Commentary Department of CCTV's News Program Center is responsible for a total of fourteen programs, and during most of the important time slots each day, their programs accompany you, telling you almost everything they know and what you want to know. As the saying goes, "There are stories both on and off the screen," and this book tells you things that happen outside the screen but are closely related to the programs and to you—such as the debates behind politics, the news behind the news, and the entertainment behind entertainment.