http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2013/02/chang-ping-on-media-censorship-and-its-future/ Watching China Politics from Cyberspace Sun, 19 May 2013 00:29:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2013/02/chang-ping-on-media-censorship-and-its-future/#comment-61573 Other than twitter, what’s really new in journalism today? | SpiritBright's Meadow of Glittery MindGarbage Sat, 02 Mar 2013 05:00:45 +0000 http://chinadigitaltimes.net/?p=150995#comment-61573 [...] Typing ‘press censorship’ into Google results in numerous stories about censorship in China, in Israel, in Syria, in Mexico, in North Korea, but finding stories about press censorship in the [...]

]]> http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2013/02/chang-ping-on-media-censorship-and-its-future/#comment-61092 Will Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:33:05 +0000 http://chinadigitaltimes.net/?p=150995#comment-61092 Chang Ping reminds us that the Hu-Wen oligarchy actually admired the North Korean oligarchy’s hard line against dissent and for censorship and determinedly built up the Great Firewall with help from Cisco and other tech corporations. Wen Jiabao’s occasional vague calls for political reform were all lacking in substance and specifics and merely spread false hopes that the oligarchy might be capable of reforming itself–an illusion. This is merely a component of the Party’s overall scheme of impression management and stability-maintenance propaganda.

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