Thu, May 17, 2012

Chinese Media Around the Web

 

Watching Hillary Clinton’s Internet Freedom Speech in China

Posted 2 years, 3 months ago

Eighteen hours after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave her much anticipated speech on Internet freedom in China, I sat among university students, professors and local newspaper correspondents in the Public Affairs Section of U.S. consulate in Shanghai. The crowd was assembled and…

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How the Chinese Media is Turning into The Onion

Posted 2 years, 4 months ago

At the end of each year, “Journalist Monthly,” a Chinese publication akin to the “Columbia Journalism Review,” lists the top ten fake news stories that have appeared in the mainstream media.  These fake stories are not intentional Onion-like spoofs. They are presented as true stories by the…

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Why the Chinese Government is Launching Its Own Hulu and YouTube

Posted 2 years, 4 months ago

A couple of weeks ago, one of China’s biggest BitTorrent websites Btchina.net was shut down by the government on the grounds that it contained lewd and copyright-infringed content. The online community is shocked by the move, which some say mark the winter of China’s internet boom.

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