The Editor in Chief
2011-04-24 16:57:22.899778+02 by petronius 0 comments
An interesting look at censorship: In China, the government issues weekly list of stories that papers or websites are either forbidden to cover, or must limit their coverage to official statments. The list itself is a perfectly precise rundown of what worries the Inner Party leadership; if I were a radical journalist I'd use the list as the table of contents for my underground paper. For example, the Shanghai Municipal Propaganda Department (I think the new mayor of Chicago is opening one of these) declares no stories about a lavish banquet thrown by the local Red Cross.