In 2016, London made a major reinvestment in the BBC World Service by expanding its staff and launching services in 11 additional languages, for a total of 40. Its objective is to improve Tehran’s image, counter “Western propaganda against Iran,” and cultivate its reputation as an anti-imperialist power.Īmong liberal democracies, the United Kingdom has taken note of this new global media situation.
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With a budget of about US$1-billion, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting and its branches in 20 countries control 40 TV and radio channels broadcasting in 30 languages. But my departure wasn’t the solution to the CBC’s problem with racismĮven Iran has jumped on the bandwagon. China Global Television Network broadcasts in six languages, and China Radio International in no less than 65 languages. China, for its part, decided 12 years ago to invest billions of dollars to, in the words of Xi Jinping, “tell China’s story well” to the world in accordance with the Chinese Communist Party line. Success is palpable: The two channels are the second and third most consulted international public media on the internet, behind the BBC. This is the case of the Russian channels RT and Sputnik, whose content does not appear so much to be about enhancing Russia’s global reputation as relativizing, even denigrating, that of Western countries. And some of them are very successful in doing so. There is a second challenge: Many of these governments are making sustained efforts to occupy the information terrain outside their borders with an approach that has scant regard for media independence and conveys a deep skepticism about Western liberal democratic narratives – while defending those of their country. From intimidation to banishment, authoritarian governments are increasingly tightening the screws on independent media. Press freedom is declining worldwide, a trend that corresponds with the decline of democracy.
This proposal is important given the global media context over the past decade.
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