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Former China Youth Daily "Freezing Point" Weekly editor Li Datong spoke to Hong Kong's Ming Pao newspaper (http://www.peacehall.com/news/gb/china/2008/12/200812171232.shtml) on the present state of affairs in Mainland media. He opined that mainland media is presently a mixed bag of the Communist Party's Central Propaganda Department still controlling the mechanism of censorship and the core "throat and tongue" State-controlled mainstream media outlets (e.g. Peoples Daily, CCTV, etc.), but that due to the inception of the Internet and the profusion of city newspapers and bloggers, it is much harder for important news to be covered up or controlled. "The scope and depth of China's media coverage has witnessed unprecedented progress," Li said. "Today's level of coverage in mainland media of natural disasters [like the Sichuan earthquake] and critical commentary of Party and government dictates and pollicies, would have been unthinkable only 20 years ago." "In the past an airline accident was considered a national secret and covered up," Li continued. "Now the deaths of tens of thousands can be reported on fairly objectively. This is a kind of progress, and demonstrates that Chinese officialdom has grown more tolerant of the the reporting of negative aspects of society and the questioning of its actions on specific issues." Li believes that the key variable in bringing about this change has been the inception of the Internet. "The internet has been the key in breaking the Communist Party's monopoly on information. In the past something tragic could have happened in a remote region in China, and due to official censorship nobody other than those directly affected would have known about it. But now due to the internet and the profusion of local Chinese bloggers, if an event has news value it will become a hot item on the internet and the whole population will no about it in short order. This fundamental transformation is not only taking place in China, but throughout the whole world." © Copyright 2008 by Boxun News Top of Page |
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