Monday, April 25, 2011

Gatekeeping, China-Style

If it was good enough for Hearst, it's good enough for authoritarian regimes, I guess. 
One of the stories oft told of William Randolph Hearst was that he would regularly send notes to the editors of his newspapers, listing stories they must run, and stories they must not.  It's been thought that authoritarian regimes often did the same, but thanks to the Internet, you can read what the weekly "do's and don'ts" for journalists and news organizations in China.  Here's last week's "directions."

Source: "Chinese editors, and a Web site, detail censors' hidden hand," Washington Post

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