Saturday, 28. April 2007, 19:44:29
Social Elite, Journalism, Public Media
WikipediaWendi Murdoch. Originally Wendi Deng (simplified Chinese: 邓文迪; pinyin: Dèng Wéndí, originally 邓文革; pinyin: Dèng Wéngé; born 1969 in Xuzhou, China) is a former Vice President of Business Affairs at News Corporation’s Asian satellite television operation and is married to its chief executive Rupert Murdoch, one of the most powerful media owners in the world.
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Saturday, 28. April 2007, 19:05:47
Journalism, Media Control
Asia Sentinel
20 April 2007First they commission a major profile of media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s young Chinese wife, then they spike the story. Could it be hazardous to upset Rupert down in Oz?
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Monday, 2. April 2007, 00:46:20
Activism, ABSURDIST, Journalism, Civil Society
Josie's Blog on a Changing China
China in Transition
March 29, 2007About Josie Liu: Born in China, graduated from Peking University with a Bachelor's degree, and from Missouri School of Journalism with a Master's degree; worked as a journalist for both Chinese and English newspapers for more than five years, including Beijing Today, South China Morning Post.Other homeowners protesting on the site of the Chongqing nail house (left)
Looking at the construction site from a nearby light rail station (right)
While the Chinese public is hungry for the latest update about the Chongqing nail house after the mainland media were largely squelched in their coverage, thanks to a young and restless blogger, people are now satisfied with on-site reporting published online.
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Thursday, 15. February 2007, 06:40:23
Journalism, Media Control, Party Politics
By Zuo Zhijian (左志坚)
Translation by ESWN
EastSouthWestNorth
February 14, 2007At the end of July 2006, following the placing of Shanghai Social Security Bureau director Zhu Junyi under "double regulations," (technical note: the person must make an account of his problems at a designated time and place) a once-in-a-decade anti-corruption battle formally began.
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Friday, 9. February 2007, 09:53:55
Journalism, Media Control, Corruption
By Edward Cody
The Washington Post, Foreign Service
January 25, 2007Correction to This Article
In a Jan. 25 article on blackmail by Chinese journalists, Hua Kejian, Liang Yongjian and Song Yi were named by several knowledgeable sources as participants in a blackmail scheme. Hua, Liang and Song deny they were part of the scheme or knew about it. They say that, however those involved in the scheme portrayed it, they never had any intention of accepting money in return for withholding news.SHENZHEN, China -- At 9 p.m. in a dark Shenzhen parking lot, Bai Xiuyu handed over a plain brown envelope containing 15,000 Chinese yuan, the equivalent of nearly $2,000, in what was supposed to be a discreet blackmail payment to a local reporter.
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Sunday, 14. January 2007, 05:55:16
Journalism, Media Control, Party Politics
The Associated Press
International Herald Tribune
January 12, 2007SHANGHAI, China: Amid official silence over the graft case against Shanghai's disgraced Communist Party chief, unlicensed tomes are stepping into the void with what they claim is the inside scoop on his downfall.
Sold by sidewalk vendors or under-the-counter at legitimate bookstores, the paperbacks, with lurid, glossy covers and eye-catching titles like, "Chen Liangyu, His Tragic Fate From Beginning to End," appear hastily assembled. Their titillating details are mostly unsourced and unverifiable.
China's secretive leadership bans public dissent and censors most sensitive political news, keeping the public largely in the dark over what's really going on in the highest echelons of power.
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Thursday, 28. December 2006, 21:26:28
Activism, Journalism, Injustice, Corruption
By Yang Lian
New Left Review 32, March-April 2005Yang Lian on Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao, Zhongguo nongmin diaocha. A catalogue of the iniquities visited on rural China as the CCP safeguards the ‘investment environment’ of the coastal cities, at the cost of the countryside. Impoverishment and extortion of 40 per cent of the world’s peasants, in a survey suppressed by the PRC authorities.Read more...
Monday, 18. December 2006, 19:47:55
ABSURDIST, Activism, Human Rights, Journalism
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By Wang Renlong
Correspondent, China Week
China Daily
2006-12-18(This translation posted by CD appeared firstly at
Danwei.)
Gao Qinrong, a party member and former Shanxi Youth Daily journalist, was the first to expose the fraud committed by Yuncheng District on a fake irrigation project in May, 1998. The Gao Qinrong Interview in Southern Metropolis DailyIn October, 1999, he was sentenced to 12 years on charges of "accepting bribes, pimping, and swindling." On 7 December, 2006, Gao Qinrong was finally set free at the end of his sentence.
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Monday, 18. December 2006, 19:36:26
ABSURDIST, Activism, Human Rights, Injustice
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By Jiang Yingshuang
Correspondent, Southern Metropolis Daily
China Daily
2006-12-18(This translation posted by CD appeared firstly at
EastSouthWestNorth.)
Gao Qinrong, born January 19, 1955, Chinese Communist Party member, former reporter at the Shanxi Youth Daily and then transferred to the Shanxi bureau of Xinhua's magazine.
In May 1998, he was the first to expose the fake irrigation project in the Yuncheng area. On December 4 of the same year, he was detained and then formally arrested on December 26.
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Saturday, 9. December 2006, 22:34:42
Journalism, Book Review
Cass Sunstein’s “Infotopia”
By Ethan Zuckerman
My Heart's in Accra
November 30, 2006Cass Sunstein’s book, Republic.com, published in 2001, offered a useful challenge to some of the cyber-utopian promises celebrated at the turn of the millenium. Nicholas Negroponte, in “Being Digital“, offered the fond hope that future news readers would consult “The Daily Me”, a customized set of news items designed to meet their specific tastes. Sunstein seizes on this possibility and offers a strong caution: if we can choose our own media, it’s possible we will use this power to insulate ourselves in an information cocoon, where we systematically avoid dissenting voices and have increasingly less common experience with our fellow citizens. Sunstein worries that a society of these isolated individuals will have difficulty participating in a democracy because citizens need a) some exposure to materials they would not have sought out and b) some common experience as a precursor for joint decisionmaking.
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