《时代》周刊撰文：《中国“超女”需要被解救》

北美《时代》周刊撰文：《中国“超女”需要被解救》

  《超级女声》自从其冠军“李宇春”上了亚洲《时代》周刊封面后，这周，“超女”再次登上了北美《时代》周刊。

   这次的文章题目非常具有煽动性，题目叫做《中国“超女”需要被解救》，很吓人的题目，很具煽动性的语气。

   具体网址

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1176987,00.html

   下文是所附的这篇文章及大概的中文意思。

   西方主流媒体对“超女”的任何举动都很感兴趣的做法，似乎透露着某些信息。

Chinas Super Girl Needs a Rescue

By SUSAN JAKES

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Posted Monday, Mar. 27, 2006
American Idol is big. Mongolian Cow Sour Yogurt Super Girls Voice is huge. Super Girl—as Chinas dairy-company-sponsored imitation of Idol is known—drew a TV audience of 400 million for the finale of its four-month run last year. Voting by text message, viewers chose Li Yuchun, 21, a college student who sang like a man and sometimes dressed like Mick Jagger, as their 2005 Super Girl.

It turns out that she may also be the last one. The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, Chinas chief broadcast regulator, last week issued new rules governing Idol-inspired shows. The directive says contests should contribute to "constructing a harmonious socialist society … [They] must not make a hubbub about things as they please and must avoid creating stars." These restrictions may or may not prevent Super Girl from securing permission to air, but theyre certain to cramp the shows style.

Less certain is what prompted the rebuke, which has stoked vigorous debate among the shows Net-savvy fans. Some speculate that the authorities worried that voting for TV contestants would make the Chinese want to vote in other contexts, such as for their political leaders. Others thought Li and her fellow finalists were insufficiently prim role models. Its also possible that Super Girl—produced by a station in Hunan province—was upstaging CCTV, Chinas national network, which produces its own more subdued but far less popular ersatz Idol.

Future Super Girls may see their ambitions quashed, but the directive reserves its harshest orders for prospective judges, who "should be positive and healthy … They must not make contestants embarrassed." That last part may explain the original Simon Cowells take on the Chinese rules: "Crazy."—By Susan Jakes

From the Apr. 03, 2006 issue of TIME magazine

这篇文章的大意是：

中国的“超级女生”需要急救

美国偶像—牛。蒙牛酸酸乳超级女声—很牛。超级女声， 作为由中国乳业公司赞助的“偶像”翻版，进行了四个月后的总决赛去年共吸引了4亿观众。通过短信投票，观众选择了李宇春—一个唱起来像男生并且有时穿的像Mick Jagger的21岁的学生—作为他们的2005年超级女生。

现在看来她可能是最后一位超级女生。中国广播电影电视总局—中国的传播管理机构—上周发布了新的条款来管治“偶像”类的节目。条款说比赛应该有助于“构建和谐社会。。。禁止随意炒作，必须避免造星”。这些限制也许不会阻止超级女声得到播出批准，但是这个节目的风格肯定被钳制了。

关于此打压的原因，网络上众说纷纭。有的猜测官方担心电视选秀投票会导致中国人想在其他方面投票。也有人认为李宇春和其他决赛选手不是好的榜样。另外一种可能就是湖南电视台制作的超级女声和中国的国家电视网CCTV唱对台。CCTV自己也有偶像翻版节目，却远没有超级女声流行。

未来的超级女声的抱负可能被打击了，但是新条款还是把最严厉的规定送给了评委们，这些人“应该必须积极健康。。。并且不得使参赛者难堪”。对于这条中国规定，(美国偶像)的评委Simon Cowell 说：“Crazy.