From Financial Times:
An attempt by China’s Xinhua news agency to tighten controls on foreign rivals has sparked fierce criticism abroad and rumbles of discontent at home – but no trace of such negativism finds its way into the agency’s own reports.
While international agencies such as Reuters have covered Beijing’s defence of the new rules and opposition to them from western governments, media freedom groups and the American Chamber of Commerce, Xinhua’s reportage has remained one-sided.
“Internet users resolutely support Xinhua’s ‘management measures for news and information dissemination by foreign news agencies within China’,” the agency said in one of its few articles on the topic.[Full Text]
