A reason for skepticism
This is a good explanation of one of the reasons that journalistic sources cannot be considered definitive when learning about government and politics anywhere.Bloomberg News Is Said to Curb Articles That Might Anger China
The decision came in an early evening call to four journalists huddled in a Hong Kong conference room…
The investigative report they had been working on for the better part of a year, which detailed the hidden financial ties between one of the wealthiest men in China and the families of top Chinese leaders, would not be published…
“[Mr. Winkler] said, ‘If we run the story, we’ll be kicked out of China,’” one of the employees said. Less than a week later, a second article, about the children of senior Chinese officials employed by foreign banks, was also declared dead, employees said…
Bloomberg News infuriated the government in 2012 by publishing a series of articles on the personal wealth of the families of Chinese leaders, including the new Communist Party chief, Xi Jinping. Bloomberg’s operations in China have suffered since, as new journalists have been denied residency and sales of its financial terminals to state enterprises have slowed…
Other news organizations have come under similar pressure. The websites of The New York Times, including a new Chinese-language edition, were blocked when it published an article in October 2012 on the family wealth of Wen Jiabao, then the prime minister. Like Bloomberg, The Times has also not received residency visas for new journalists…
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Labels: China, critical thinking, journalism
posted by Ken Wedding @ 5:30 AM
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