Ching-Ching Ni from the Los Angeles Times wrote: “China recently shut down newspapers and detained academics, sparking a debate here on whether the government has launched a new era of repression or merely is sending a message to the country’s burgeoning media that they need to practice more self-censorship.
Authorities last week shut down the New Weekly, a hard-hitting paper that has been in circulation less than two months. It was run by former members of another popular paper, Southern Weekend, which has seen many of its editors ousted for failing to toe the government’s line. ”
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