Global Media Spectacle

<p><b>Uses Hong Kong's transfer from Britain to China to explore how media coverage is guided by ideological struggle.</b></p><p>Focusing on the global media coverage of Hong Kong's transfer from Britain to China Global Media Spectacle explores how the world media plan operate compete and produce a historical record during significant global events. The authors interviewed seventy-six print and television reporters from the United States Britain the People's Republic of China Hong Kong Taiwan Australia Canada and Japan to delve into the revealing world of writing first drafts of history from reporters' vantage points. Punctuated with witty and incisive examples the book provides a useful description of contestation and alliance themes and variations and convergence and divergence between and within various blocs of nations.</p>