{"id":698076,"date":"2024-03-15T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=698076"},"modified":"2024-03-21T12:42:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T19:42:41","slug":"police-prevent-state-media-from-reporting-on-yanjiao-explosion-the-party-muffled-its-own-mouthpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2024\/03\/police-prevent-state-media-from-reporting-on-yanjiao-explosion-the-party-muffled-its-own-mouthpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Prevent State Media From Reporting on Yanjiao Explosion: \u201cThe Party Muffled Its Own Mouthpiece\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2024\/03\/gas-leak-explosion-in-yanjiao-near-beijing-kills-seven-and-injures-27\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">an explosion caused by a gas leak destroyed a four-story building, killing seven and injuring 27 in Yanjiao<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a commuter town located about 20 miles east of Beijing, reporters from state-media outlets China Central Television (CCTV) and China Media Group (CMG) rushed to report from the scene, only to be pushed away by uniformed police and guards.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The video below, compiled by CDT Chinese editors, shows images of the destruction and videos of the CCTV and CMG journalists being hustled away from the scene:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u3010CDTV\u3011\u592e\u89c6\u8bb0\u8005\u71d5\u90ca\u91c7\u8bbf\u7206\u71c3\u4e8b\u6545\u9047\u963b\uff0c\u515a\u7684\u5589\u820c\u88ab\u515a\u6390\u8116\u5b50\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1AdU3aY3A8E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The incidents resulted in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/chinese\/705876.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">public criticism of the heavy-handed tactics<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, an unusual <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/china-hebei-gas-explosion-death-toll-state-media-reporters-scandal-1879048\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">statement in support of press freedom<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from the CCP-affiliated All-China Journalists Association, and a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-03-14\/china-officials-apologize-after-security-guards-halt-news-report\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">rare apology to the press<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by municipal officials in Sanhe. (Despite its proximity to Beijing, the town of Yanjiao is under the jurisdiction of Sanhe city, Hebei province.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There have been other attempts to censor or distract from the story about the destructive explosion, the investigation into its cause, and public speculation that nearby subway construction might have been to blame. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/chinese\/705919.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A now-deleted article<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Phoenix Weekly journalists Zhang Nanxi, Xu Shuang, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">L\u00fc<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yihan, and Lin Mengqing included interviews with many local residents, some of the injured, and the owner of the fried chicken restaurant that exploded, who denied that his restaurant had ever used natural gas. After the abruptly-terminated CCTV interview in which their correspondent was blocked by police, the state-media broadcaster immediately <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SydneyDaddy1\/status\/1767857630452805976\">aired a news segment<\/a> titled<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/explosion-pittsburgh-home-kills-man-woman\/3800953\/\">House Explodes in Pittsburgh Suburb<\/a>, Two People Dead<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> And a Weibo user in Xi\u2019an who posts under the username <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u5265\u849c\u5148\u751f (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">b\u0101osu\u00e0n xi\u0101nsheng<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, &#8220;Mr. Garlic-Peeler&#8221;) <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reported <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/chinese\/705921.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">an incident of \u201ccross-provincial police harassment<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u201d He said that he received a call (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iPaulCanada\/status\/1768230317230371118\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">audio here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) from a man claiming to be from Y<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">anjiao\u2019s Xinggongdong police station. The caller asked Mr. Garlic-Peeler to delete a Weibo video he had posted of the CCTV journalist being blocked from reporting by police. When Mr. Garlic-Peeler refused, the caller said, \u201cYou\u2019ll be hearing from us again,\u201d and ended the call.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CDT Chinese editors have collected some online comments <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/chinese\/705876.html\"><strong>from Weibo and Chinese Twitter about police impeding reporters from \u201cParty mouthpieces\u201d CCTV and CMG from doing their jobs<\/strong><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. A selection of these have been translated below:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">pifuzhinu113541: You won\u2019t even let your \u201cown people\u201d go free, that\u2019s brutal!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Batman_RHood: Is Hebei not under Chinese sovereignty?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">mascoshdij\uff1aThe Party muffled its own mouthpiece.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u674e\u6638: Turning against your own\u2014it\u2019s the law of nature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">yiwenbaby2: Looks like they\u2019re trying to hide something. The official story seems sus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u5954\u8dd1\u5728\u7eff\u6d32\u7684\u8717\u725b: Now do you get why <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsonweibo.com\/zhang-versus-zhang-an-online-debate-over-the-value-of-studying-journalism-in-china\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zhang Xuefeng advised students not to study journalism<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u80e1\u6c5f\u6ce2\u5728\u5317\u4eac: Let\u2019s see how CCTV reporters defend their rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u591a\u5c11\u4e8b\u4ed8\u7b11\u8c08\u4e2d123\uff1aIt\u2019s all America\u2019s fault.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seki-UltimateLover-: Now they\u2019re even trying to shut up CCTV journalists. It\u2019s state media\u2019s turn [to be repressed].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">antzheng\uff1aHilarious that those police officers trying to \u201cprevent further accidents\u201d at the scene weren\u2019t wearing any protective gear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">woyongdehuawei: The scene <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> dangerous, because those cops can run faster than anyone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u91d1\u725b\u7ae5\u978b: Lucky she was from CCTV. If it were anyone else, they wouldn\u2019t have been so polite.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u628a\u62d4\u575d\u9738: A cover-up with Chinese characteristics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">hanslight3: So the mighty Party-controlled media finally get a taste of the iron fist of socialism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seeseapee: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the quantum entanglement effects of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/explosion-pittsburgh-home-kills-man-woman\/3800953\/\">Pittsburgh suburbs<\/a> and Yanjiao, Hebei.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">fromshanghaic: Now CCTV reporters can enjoy the same treatment as foreign media. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/chinese\/705876.html\"><strong>Chinese<\/strong><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">]<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an explosion caused by a gas leak destroyed a four-story building, killing seven and injuring 27 in Yanjiao, a commuter town located about 20 miles east of Beijing, reporters from state-media outlets China Central Television (CCTV) and China Media Group (CMG) rushed to report from the scene, only to be pushed away by uniformed 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