While officials in the Guizhou town of Weng’an let rioters run rampant in major protests over the death of a local girl earlier this month, they appear to be doing quite a good job keeping journalists under control. ESWN...
Read MoreFrom AFP: It is unacceptable for China to block Internet content, a European Commissioner said Friday, calling the Internet a free and open medium. “We say for instance to the Chinese, very clearly so, that their blocking...
Read MoreCraig Simons reports on the statesman.com: Hundreds of thousands of toads invaded a city. A 300-foot-wide pond drained into the earth. Chinese officials evacuated a school where their children were studying. The evidence —...
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Foreign journalists covering the Beijing Olympics must take care to avoid placing Chinese assistants and news sources at risk of arrest when covering sensitive topics, a U.S. watchdog group said on Thursday. The...
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: … China’s new generation of metropolitan newspapers, current affairs magazines and Internet media have all reported on the quake with an intensity and professionalism that has not been...
Read MoreChris O’Brien reports in The Washington Times: Public demand for news after the earthquake in Sichuan has forced the Chinese government to relax its controls over the flow of information online and in traditional media — a...
Read MoreThe hand foot and mouth disease outbreak seems like a local version of the 2003 SARS epidemic. And there’s one more similarity: the silence of the local media. A commentary translated by CDT from the Beijing News: I am the...
Read MoreWhile it appears to be working so far, Ivy Wang of Sun Yat-sen University argues, the cozy relationship between Chinese state media and the country’s nationalistic netizens seems bound to backfire on the government. From...
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: China suffered another unexpected public relations setback on Wednesday when Buddhist monks interrupted a government-managed news media tour in western China by waving a Tibetan flag and protesting that...
Read MoreHere is an extensive report on Der Spiegel’s English website: Part 1: China Loses Control of the Games Part 2: ‘Journey of Harmony’ Part 3: The Boycott Taboo Part 4: And the Screen Went Dark Simon Elegant also...
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