From Reuters via the Washington Post (link) China defended its latest rules controlling foreign access to domestic media and television on Tuesday, saying the government was simply protecting intellectual property rights but was still committed to an open market. Senior officials also said Chinese people preferred reading foreign magazines on science and technology — which […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via A Glimpse of the World: These are dark days for China’s media as the communist government, increasingly nervous about social unrest, intensifies control over what can and cannot be reported to the public, shutting down newspapers and sacking journalists who question its authority. But analysts and journalists say that the tighter it […]
Read MoreFrom South China Morning Post, viaAsiaMedia: Mainland journalists are experiencing their worst censorship in recent years, with outspoken media outlets being crushed one by one. Journalists and academics said the momentum to mute forthright journalists and media outlets reached a peak on Tuesday with the closure of the popular four-page China Youth Daily weekly feature […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: A rare protest by Chinese journalists at a leading national newspaper offers a window into the intensifying severity of information control in China and the sometimes sophisticated resistance to it by Chinese journalists. A frank 19-page letter by Li Datong, a senior editor at China Youth Daily, details a struggle […]
Read MoreFrom the Central News Agency, translated by Joseph McMullin, via Press Interpreter: Persons working in the state controlled Chinese media have leaked a memo from the Chinese government that requires news agencies to reduce or cut their coverage of the mass street demonstrations. One of China’s most popular websites, sina.com.cn originally posted an article entitled, […]
Read MoreThe author of this essay is an American who works in China for CCTV. Ann Condi is a pen name. Princeton professor Perry Link’s words: it is “the most penetrating analysis I have seen on the psychology of the...
Read MoreA veil of silence has fallen around the car ramming attack that killed 35 and injured 43 in Zhuhai, Guangdong, this Monday. The shocking attack—the most deadly “Xianzhong” incident in a year marked by them—has become a highly...
Read MoreCaving to online male backlash that included a threatened boycott, Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com announced that it would scrap its November 11 “Singles Day” shopping festival collaboration with comedian Yang Li (杨笠, Yáng Lì)....
Read MoreThe latest draconian decree issued by the Taliban on Monday was a gradual media ban on all images of living things in news coverage. Repression of the media and civil rights may be even harsher under the Taliban than under the...
Read MoreThe attempted assassination of Donald Trump has dominated Chinese headlines and social media through the weekend. While speaking at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania this Saturday, former President Trump was grazed on the ear by...
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