China steps up restrictions on media, IFJ report says

[alp227]

Source: BBC

China has intensified efforts over the past year to control what the media can say, a report by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) says.

It says hundreds of regulations have been introduced since the Beijing Olympics in 2008 to restrict reporters writing on social unrest or scandals.

Journalists were told they could only use the official Xinhua news agency during the 2008 tainted baby milk row.

They were also told not to travel to report on the Sichuan quake in 2008.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8489748.stm

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In the US, the corporate news media dumbs itself down by avoiding risky topics. In China, the government does the sanitation!

[saigon68]

1. A thuggish Fascist government about to OWN all of amerika

What more is there to say?

[MilitarismFTL]

2. It seems more like

In the US the media practices self-censorship in order to maintain open lines of communication with those in power. Michael Parenti has a pretty amazing book on it called Inventing Reality: the Politics of News Media. I'd suggest that read for everyone!

[SlingBlade]

3. China steps up restrictions on media ? Hey I know what

we should do.

President Obama should visit the next Communist Party Retreat and talk harshly to them

That'll teach those mean old Commie Corporatist !

[tom_paine]

4. China and our Empire are Sister Nations, we just use different methods

to achieve the same goals.