On May 1st, the Freedom House and the Broadcasting Board of Governors (the US entity that oversees Radio Free Asia) held a half-day session on “21st century threats to media freedom.” Perry Link, professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University, spoke about China’s state of censorship and how it has evolved over the last 30 years…
Professor Link said that while the CCP still holds ultimate power on what goes into the media, the ways it goes about it have changed to become far more insidious. As a result lots of young people in China know nothing about the Tiananmen massacre or Tibet and host of other issues deemed forbidden topics.
Listen to Professor Link’s statement (10 minutes.)
Related links:
Interview with the former editor of Baixing magazine, whose hard-hitting reporting earned him and his staff the wrath of the powerful Central Propaganda Department.
Leaked document? A ghost in China’s propaganda machine
Publishing crackdown begins July 1
A hotshot civil rights laywer from the north tells it like it is… Mo Shaoping on YouTube
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