In Asia Times, Paul Mooney makes the point that the recent upsurge in unrest we have been reading about in China’s countryside may be due as much to improved communications as to an increase in incidents: “Making matters worse for the government, China’s ‘new media’ appear to be reaching a critical mass. While news of […]
Read MoreThe Hui-Han clashes which killed at least twenty people in Henan Province have been reported around the globe, despite government efforts to prevent media coverage. According to the AFP, four foreign journalists were detained while reporting from the scene, and local journalists have been banned from reporting the news. “They are afraid to trigger conflict […]
Read MoreThe Chinese government has announced plans to rein in domestic reporting about Japan in an effort to improve bilateral relations. According to the Straits Times, “The move comes at a time of worsening public sentiment in both countries towards the other due to historical issues, including Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s visits to Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: “China Unicom, the nation’s second-largest mobile phone carrier, plans to open up to 3,000 Internet cafes by the end of the year, state media said. This appears to be part of government plans to tighten controls over the Internet, which currently has close to 90 million users in China, by giving just a […]
Read MoreThanks to Eswn for translating Professor Jiao Guobiao’s latest essay: How to open up new control in China. In the article, Jiao, a professor in Peking University concluded that “If the news control should be opened up and the news media are allowed to function as public opinion watchdogs, a single newspaper will be more […]
Read MoreThanks very much to Tim Bishop for contributing the following post to China Digital News: I was delighted to see today that the Washington Post is running on its front page a well-written article by Phillip P. Pan on the detention of Dr. Jiang Yanyong, the hero of the 2003 SARS epidemic in China.
Read MoreJonathan Zittrain, Harvard Law School Two ways that filtering is taking place: supply and demand. Supply Side: sometimes countries censor their own sites (for example, Google will omit sites that have infringed on copyright law) Demand Side: domain redirection, you search for google and are redirected to Beijing University. The topped filtered sites are Tibet […]
Read MoreCindy Cohn, Electronic Frontier Foundation Every time there’s a new tool of expression, a new media of expression, it has to fight for first amendment rights. Some media, like newspapers, has little regulation. Other, like TV, have lots of regulation. The Internet is no different – and a lot of those issues (freedom of speech, […]
Read MoreDow Jones reported on April 9: “Foreign media and publishing groups, including News Corp and Germany’s Bertelsmann, are in talks with Chinese media companies on a range of cooperation deals made possible by a loosening of government control over the industry. By quietly allowing dozens of state-owned broadcasting, newspaper and other media groups to experiment […]
Read MoreThe Hong Kong-based, Chinese language Yazhou Zhoukan (Asia Weekly) magazine has published a lengthy article about the recent crackdown on Southern Metropolis News (Nanfang Dushi Bao), in which two employees of the newspaper were sentenced to lengthy terms for alleged corruption and the top editor was arrested and is awaiting trial. Chinese journalists have called […]
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