Ministry of Truth: Urgent Notice on Southern Weekly
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by central government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online.
Central Propaganda Department: Urgent Notice Concerning the Southern Weekly New Year’s Message Publication Incident: Responsible Party committees and media at a ...
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Censorious Party apparatchiks on the prowl again, first crawling one way, then crawling the other.
May southern Weekly prevail and may all Chinese citizens vocally and vehemently support these brave, smart journalists!
May the Communist Chinese Propaganda bureau die a quick, inglorious death.
[...] mắt, tờ Hoàn Cầu trích dẫn một Bấm chỉ thi của Ban Tuyên giáo Trung ương gửi cho các toà soạn báo đài trên cả nước hôm 7/1 yêu cầu [...]
[...] that Beijing would not react to the situation in Guangzhou were quickly dashed today when the Central Committee in the capital released a statement that the Communist Party must always have “absolute control” of the media in China and that [...]
[...] Beijing may repeat its golden rule that all media must be controlled by the Communist Party (Urgent Notice Concerning the Southern Weekly New Year’s Message Publication Incident) [...]
Well, if that’s the instruction, the Chinese media certainly haven’t heard it. If you goto news.baidu and search with key phrase “南方周末” (Southern Weekly), you’ll see a divergent opinions besides the above mentioned OpEd.
BTW, isn’t CDT funded by US Congress via NED grants? Smells like propaganda to me.
[...] Beijing News refused to obey a central committee order that all newspapers reprint a misleading and factually inaccurate editorial from The Global [...]
[...] mắt, tờ Hoàn Cầu trích dẫn một Bấm chỉ thi của Ban Tuyên giáo Trung ương gửi cho các toà soạn báo đài trên cả nước hôm 7/1 yêu cầu [...]
[...] portrayed the incident in very hostile terms was published in the more hawkish Global Times and propaganda authorities reportedly instructed the news media to republish it. These severely mixed signals did not [...]