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Chinese TV station runs a "guess the death toll" contest on Russian School Crisis
This is *almost* beyond belief and is outright the most appauling thing I've ever heard.
A state run television network in China ran a "guess the deathtoll" lottery (with prizes) while covering the Russian hostage Crisis several weeks ago.
Sickening.
http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1274&storyid=1999804
SMS banned after death toll comp
From Elaine Kurtenbach in Shanghai
September 27, 2004
CHINA has ordered television networks not to run unauthorised contests using mobile phone text messaging after a state-run station held a lottery to guess the death toll from the school siege tragedy in Beslan, Russia.
Official media today carried a notice from the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, ordering broadcasters to get permission to run games soliciting listener participation through SMS, or short-message service.
News programs are banned from such activities, and other programs may not use them with "political or sensitive topics", it said.
The order comes as regulators try to exert more control over SMS messaging amid mounting complaints over advertisements, lotteries and other unsolicited messages received on mobile phones.
According to reports in Beijing News and other state-run newspapers, China Central Television removed several executives after it was censured for running an SMS lottery during a September 6 broadcast of Today's Focus.
It invited the public to guess the number of people killed during the Beslan siege.
Viewers were given four choices, ranging from 302 to 402. More than 330 people died, mostly children.
The program ran on the state broadcaster's international channel, CCTV 4. Staff there refused comment.
The lottery angered Moscow, offended many viewers and prompted lively commentaries on China's Internet bulletin boards. Most praised efforts to crack down on such programs.
"Many SMS lotteries are nothing but a trap," Jiang Chen, a student in Nanjing, wrote on the website of Shenyang Jingbao, a north-eastern China newspaper.
"The chance to be rewarded is tiny, but you can always expect to pay extra money for your phone bill even if you respond just once," Jiang wrote.
AAP
This is *almost* beyond belief and is outright the most appauling thing I've ever heard.
A state run television network in China ran a "guess the deathtoll" lottery (with prizes) while covering the Russian hostage Crisis several weeks ago.
Sickening.
http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1274&storyid=1999804
SMS banned after death toll comp
From Elaine Kurtenbach in Shanghai
September 27, 2004
CHINA has ordered television networks not to run unauthorised contests using mobile phone text messaging after a state-run station held a lottery to guess the death toll from the school siege tragedy in Beslan, Russia.
Official media today carried a notice from the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, ordering broadcasters to get permission to run games soliciting listener participation through SMS, or short-message service.
News programs are banned from such activities, and other programs may not use them with "political or sensitive topics", it said.
The order comes as regulators try to exert more control over SMS messaging amid mounting complaints over advertisements, lotteries and other unsolicited messages received on mobile phones.
According to reports in Beijing News and other state-run newspapers, China Central Television removed several executives after it was censured for running an SMS lottery during a September 6 broadcast of Today's Focus.
It invited the public to guess the number of people killed during the Beslan siege.
Viewers were given four choices, ranging from 302 to 402. More than 330 people died, mostly children.
The program ran on the state broadcaster's international channel, CCTV 4. Staff there refused comment.
The lottery angered Moscow, offended many viewers and prompted lively commentaries on China's Internet bulletin boards. Most praised efforts to crack down on such programs.
"Many SMS lotteries are nothing but a trap," Jiang Chen, a student in Nanjing, wrote on the website of Shenyang Jingbao, a north-eastern China newspaper.
"The chance to be rewarded is tiny, but you can always expect to pay extra money for your phone bill even if you respond just once," Jiang wrote.
AAP
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". Anyway ... grow up, people. 
