{"id":165204,"date":"2013-11-08T22:50:59","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T06:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=165204"},"modified":"2013-11-08T23:09:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T07:09:47","slug":"bloomberg-news-said-curb-articles-might-anger-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/11\/bloomberg-news-said-curb-articles-might-anger-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg News Is Said to Curb Articles That Might Anger China"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times has spoken with unnamed employees of Bloomberg News in Hong Kong who say that editors chose not to run a story on ties between a wealthy businessman and China’s top leaders<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

The investigative report they had been working on for the better part of a year, which detailed the hidden financial ties between one of the wealthiest men in China and the families of top Chinese leaders, would not be published.<\/p>\n

In the call late last month, [editor in chief Matthew] Winkler defended his decision, comparing it to the self-censorship by foreign news bureaus trying to preserve their ability to report inside Nazi-era Germany, according to Bloomberg employees familiar with the discussion.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said, \u2018If we run the story, we\u2019ll be kicked out of China,\u2019 \u201d one of the employees said. Less than a week later, a second article, about the children of senior Chinese officials employed by foreign banks, was also declared dead, employees said.<\/p>\n

Mr. Winkler said in an email on Friday that the articles in question were not killed. \u201cWhat you have is untrue,\u201d he said. \u201cThe stories are active and not spiked.\u201d [Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The story also alleges that Bloomberg has self-censored stories that appear on their news terminals operating in China.<\/p>\n

Last year, the Bloomberg website was blocked in China <\/a>after it ran an investigative piece on the wealth of President Xi Jinping’s family. Since then, some Bloomberg reporters have not been granted new permits to live in China, according to the New York Times article.<\/p>\n

A year ago, the New York Times website was blocked, and some of their journalists have since had difficulty acquiring Chinese visas, after the paper ran an expos\u00e9 on the family wealth of former Premier Wen Jiabao<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Taiwan’s Next Media Animation has already created an animated take on the Bloomberg story:
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