Breaking News – Communist propaganda meddles with press freedom
A few days ago; the CCP’s Propaganda Ministry issued an ordinance setting out five rules on reporting the Olympic Torch Relay in Mainland China. There is to be one voice for all reports on sudden and sensitive issues, further tightening control of the news media.
China’s former deputy editor-in-chief of Economics Weekly, the winner of the International News Courage Prize, Madam Gao Yu said in an interview with reporters that the CCP’s Propaganda Ministry’s reporting requirements are serious interference with press freedom before the Olympics. But it’s also one of the authoritarian features of the current one-party rule of the Communists in China to prevent the truth emerging.
Gao Yu said that the Chinese government has always strictly controlled the news and propaganda to ensure stability. In particular, she mentioned that the Chinese Communists previously implemented policy in response to sudden incidents, and has put very strict limits in place for the reporters’ interviews while the remote interviews, even to foreign journalists, including domestic reporters and journalists are banned.
Gao Yu believes that freedom of press is a universal principle, where she used examples in Wenchuan Earthquake while being wantonly interfered, foreign journalists were detained and even deported from Sichuan, pointing out that the five-point demand is actually followed a one-party totalitarian dictatorship taken by the Party’s old methods, aiming at blocking the truth from being revealed.
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