The Washington Post reports on new efforts by the propaganda czars to control coverage of the upcoming NPC meetings: Communist Party propaganda chiefs have issued a stern new warning to China’s broadcast executives, saying news reports and entertainment should promote socialist loyalty and soothe tensions as the country enters a sensitive political season. The new […]
Read MoreChina Central Television, commonly abbreviated as CCTV, is the only major broadcast television network in China. It is a totally state-controlled television service. Organizationally, it is sub-ministry of the People’s Republic of China’s central government within the State Administration of Radio, Television, and Film. Its news reporting follows parameters directed by the Propaganda Department of […]
Read MoreSince author Zhang Yihe published her “My Statement and Position” on Janurary 19, 2007, many intellectuals and ordinary citizens have publicly expressed their support for Ms. Zhang in cyberspace. The following...
Read MoreThe latest edition of South Wind Window (Nanfeng Chuang ÂçóÈ£éÁ™ó) magazine has a soild read about a peasant woman’s unlikely transformation from kidnapped bride to model teacher, and the pressures she’s faced from local cadres since hundreds of Chinese newspapers and TV stations latched on to her story earlier this year. In 1994, when she […]
Read MoreThe third and fourth generations of Communist Party leaders have featured the technocrats. The fifth could showcase the legicrats – a klatch of apparatchiks who got law degrees, though often nominal or rudimentary, in the...
Read MoreFrom The South China Morning Post: A leading news magazine has been ordered to clean up its act by the Communist Party’s propaganda department and the government’s media regulator after the publication defied a central directive to refrain from reporting politically sensitive historic events, media sources said. Without specifying the magazine’s “defiance”, the Publicity Department […]
Read MoreYezi is a long-time blogger living in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. She studied journalism and communication and wrote her graduate thesis on blogging and its impact on media. She is the main local organizer for the second...
Read MoreFrom BBC News: At the editorial meeting at the influential newspaper Beijing Youth Daily, the morning news list is put together without too much discussion. The editorial team already know the most important stories to include, thanks to the government’s powerful news agency, Xinhua. ……. Li Datong, the former editor of a high-profile magazine, Freezing […]
Read MoreSeems the propaganda-meisters weren’t the only ones issuing gag orders over coverage of the knockout of Shanghai’s top cadre a week ago. Caijing magazine did too. Back in August and early September, as Beijing’s investigators tried to get to the bottom off the pension fund scandal, the financial magazine’s reporters kept remarkably in stride with […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times: A Taiwanese firm has dropped its libel claim against two Shanghai journalists and their newspaper for saying that workers at a plant manufacturing iPods were mistreated, the official Xinhua news agency said on Sunday. Shenzhen-based Foxconn, which manufactures iPods for Apple Inc. , and the China Business News […]
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