Lindsay Beck: Zhao Death Shows Limits of China’s Media Freedom

From the Reuters, via the Boston Globe: A glance at the newspapers and glossy magazines jostling for space on China’s news stands shows how much the media has changed since the Communist country embraced market reforms more than 20 years ago.

But the death of ousted leader Zhao Ziyang, who sympathized with student demonstrators in the 1989 Tiananmen movement, serves as a reminder that though the titles may have come a long way since Mao’s days, the content is still strictly controlled.”

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