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Dreaming of docile news media
“Correct guidance of public opinion,” the notion media must adhere to the discipline guidelines of the Chinese Communist Party in order to maintain social and political stability, remains the crux of...
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Your only report on the World Media Summit
It’s that time of year again. No, I don’t mean the Nobel Prizes. I’m not talking about the International Emmys. It’s time for the World Media Summit. You know, that buzzing international meeting to...
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Who watches CCTV Nightly News?
The following post by Kdnet.net (凯迪网络), the official Weibo account of the international Chinese-language web portal KDNET, was deleted from Sina Weibo sometime before 5:04pm today, November 13, 2013....
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By CHANG PING Recently, the deputy chief of the Internet Team of the Haikou City Public Security Department was sentenced to 10 years in prison. His crime: accepting bribes. Local media made a point of...
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China’s bawdy state media
In the wake of revelations of alleged news extortion at 21cbh.com, a financial news website under the auspices of the 21st Century Business Herald newspaper, CMP fellow Zhu Xuedong wrote about what he...
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Busy bee, President Xi
Since rising to the post of General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in November 2012, Xi Jinping has worked hard set himself apart from his predecessors, defining his personal style as...
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China leads the world in media corruption, says expert
In September last year, as China saw a series of media scandals, we ran several articles addressing the phenomenon of media corruption. We refer readers back to “Who Warped China’s Media?“; “China’s...
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Top official positive on “positive” media
Last Friday, as the curtain closed on the annual session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Congress (CPPCC), China’s mostly nominal political advisory body, the group’s chairman, Yu...
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China’s media under Mr. Positive
In China’s highly centralised system of discourse deployment, we can think of the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party as the country’s pronouncer-in-chief. Whatever consensus has massed...
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Propaganda converges
In a ceremony today attended by senior officials dealing with media and propaganda, China’s official Xinhua News Service launched the second edition of its news app for iPhone and Android. Cai Mingzhao...
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Human rights in the People’s Daily
Released yesterday by the State Council, China’s white paper on its “hard-won tangible results on human rights” in 2014 is an exemplary work of dissimulation. Unseemly social and political facts loom...
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