As for Hamburger, I suppose it depends on whether you define accurate as being close to the sound or the meaning.

汉堡 means Hamburg (the German city), while 包 means “bun”.

I’m telling you, this is definitely a more accurate and elegant translation than ハンバーガー or 햄버거 any time!

汉堡啊[...]

汉堡 or 汉堡包 means “burger”.

Interesting that he should point that out since that’s the main thing that Mac’s known to sell.

From what you say, it is indeed sad that US traditional channels rarely show anything high quality about other countries — probably that’s why some US politicians think that the Chinese (or at least the majority of them) still live in caves.

But I presume Nat Geog and other cable channels do have better quality shows?

Anyhow, CNBC is a business channel after all, so it has to supplement its reports with stats and business-related stuff. It’s good that they at least recognize China as being huge economically, and that their viewers would expect any self-respecting business channel to have good coverage of it, for the sake of balanced reporting. Just have a look at CNN and you’ll know what I’m talking about.

I don’t know much about media in China but the US media here is pretty awful. It rare to see even a glimpse of anything going on outside of the US. It’s also really sad that the only good news program is on Comedy Central.

Hmm… I’m not sure why CNBC’s video doesn’t play. I assume you have flash installed since you can watch Youtube. Are you using anything other than Windows? Maybe a codec issue? Try K-Lite Codec Pack Standard.

http://www.free-codecs.com/K_l.....wnload.htm

and about the media thing, Chinese media are doomed! They are too concerned about maintaining domestic stability or forced to be. Doomed!!! Orz…