Media scrutiny intensifies in key year – Vivian Wu

From the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media:

The mainland’s media watchdog has warned its branches to keep a close eye on the sale and broadcast of sensitive content with several key political anniversaries rolling around this year.

The General Administration of Press and Publication, which oversees mainland newspapers, periodicals, television, radio and other electronic media, said it would closely monitor content on the anniversaries of events such as the Cultural Revolution, the Tangshan earthquake, the Communist Party’s founding, and the deaths of Mao Zedong and other senior leaders.

The warning, the latest among moves by the central government to tighten media and ideological controls, was carried in a circular issued late last month and appeared on the administration’s website this week. [Full text]

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