Tuesday, June 27, 2006

China and media censorship

In an age of laptop computers, cellular phones, handheld video cameras and digital photography, I don't know how the Chinese government expects to keep this up:

China May Fine News Media to Limit Coverage
BEIJING, June 26 — Chinese media outlets will be fined if they report on "sudden events" without prior authorization from government officials, under a draft law being considered by the Communist Party-controlled legislature.

The law would give government officials a powerful new tool to restrict coverage of mass outbreaks of disease, riots, strikes, accidents and other events that the authorities prefer to keep secret.

What they probably have in mind are stories like this:

China Covers Up Violent Suppression of Village Protest

Or this:

Dynamite blast kills 10 in China village

Or this:

China's Brutal Crackdown on Dissidents

1 Comments:

Blogger Ray said...

Let's hope so.

10:38 AM  

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