From BBC News: Foreign journalists covering China’s annual parliament session are being allowed for the first time to interview lawmakers and political advisers directly. Chinese official media are touting this as a sign of the country’s growing transparency to the world’s press ahead of next year’s Olympic Games. China’s domestic media, by contrast, face growing […]
Read MoreThe 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 MoreOn AsiaMedia, James F. Paradise reviews the latest volume of China’s Media & Entertainment Law: One way the Chinese government has attempted to control the media and entertainment industries has been through media and entertainment law. The laws — and all the other rules and regulations by which the media environment is shaped — state […]
Read MoreFrom OSC Analysis: Authoritative PRC leadership statements and commentary surrounding the annual plenary meeting of the party’s Central Discipline Inspection Commission (CDIC) suggest that the party’s current campaign against corruption has been intensified and is focused on curbing corruption at the lower levels of the party and the government.¬† The steady stream of reports in […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: The democracy protests of 1989, culminating in the massacre of student demonstrators in Beijing on June 4, brought the birth of new supreme buzzword in the Chinese media lexicon — “guidance of public opinion”. There are now indications that the term, synonymous with press control, is gradually retiring to the annals […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, two stories which have implications for media freedom in China: The Communist Party has further tightened its grip on the mainland’s increasingly bold media by imposing a pre-censorship rule on coverage of politically sensitive topics, according to sources. In an internal document released to state-run media recently, the Publicity […]
Read MoreFrom smh.com.au: China is tightening controls on its booming online game industry, requiring distributors to closely monitor game contents after some were found that included forbidden religious or political material, a state news agency said Tuesday. The announcement adds to government efforts to tighten controls over Chinese newspapers, television and other media. Distributors must obtain […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei: Those outside of China often imagine hordes of Internet savvy Chinese Web surfers scouring the Internet for cracks in the Great Firewall, avidly downloading precious snippets of information blocked by the government to disseminate among the circle of politically-aware Chinese cybernauts. The hope is that the Internet is having a transformative effect on […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: Hu Shuli 胡舒立, editor-in-chief of China’s influential Caijing magazine, was listed on the Wall Street Journal’s list of “Ten women to watch in Asia” on November 20. Hu Shuli is...
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia, Netease, etc. (you will be wowed!!!): A Chinese senior propaganda official said recently in meetings, including during a visit to Washington last month, that China’s Internet is the world’s most free and that China is more progressive than Korea and UK, despite China’s bottom-hitting ranking in a latest world wide survey […]
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