While the cancellation of a cartoon channel in Zhengzhou, capital of central China’s Henan Province, may not be good news for young children, some parents were happy that it was no longer on air.The parents complained that their children spent too much time, including sleep and homework hours, watching the cartoon channel, a subsidiary of Hunan Satellite TV and available in about a dozen Chinese cities.
One person, who called himself the father of a five-year-old, posted a comment on sina.com.cn and said that his child often spent a whole day watching the channel. He also protested that a Japanese cartoon program on the channel had too much violent fighting and bloody scenes.
Another lady told China Youth Daily about her concerns. Her four-year-old daughter was fascinated by the suicide of a cartoon character and she was afraid that the little girl might mimic the act.
Officials of Zhengzhou’s television provider and Hunan TV, however, said the removal of the channel was due to conflict in distributing local channel resources but not out of concern of the content or parents’ complaints.
But the explanation did not stop the public from debating on the Web on issues such as cartoon industry, television culture and education.
Many wrote that parents should blame their own failure in education, but not the cartoon television, for their children’s problems, while insisting that the children should have the right to watch cartoon.
“I don’t understand why [parents] blame television when their children were not well educated and controlled,” one post reads.
Some suggested a rating system for cartoon programs in China, like in some other countries.
People also criticized that Chinese television programs are having more and more violent or sexual contents.
“Some bad commercials, bad cartoon and bad dramas are aired over and over again on many TV stations,” one poster wrote while suggesting stronger control of program quality. “[I] would rather have fewer channels than so much trash. ”
The discussion inevitably touched on the comparison between Chinese and foreign, especially Japanese cartoon productions, and quite a few commentators were not happy that Chinese cartoon production has lagged behind.
“Had China’s cartoon developed better, things would not have been like this—everyone loves watching Japanese cartoon,” one note says.
China Youth Daily story
http://comment4.news.sina.com.cn/comment/skin/default.html?channel=gn&newsid=1-1-12898591&style=0
Online comments
http://comment4.news.sina.com.cn/comment/skin/default.html?channel=gn&newsid=1-1-12898591&style=0
Hunan satellite TV cartoon channel
http://www.hunantv.com/cartoon/
3 comments:
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Is cacellation of japanese cartoons entirely motivated by drop in performance of chinese school children or does fenqing phenomena have something to do with it? But anyway even if the government wants to cancel some japanese programmes because of nudity shown or sexual content then many western shows or movies like say sin city would also have to be cancelled as they may influence the psychgraphic profile of a child.....but is this the right thing to do in the long run?
i don't think the cancellation has much to do with drop in school performances or public criticism. actually, the cartoon channel showed Chinese cartoon as well, only that they were not as popular as some Japanese cartoon.
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