{"id":2646,"date":"2014-08-17T19:03:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T19:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=2646"},"modified":"2014-08-18T01:21:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T01:21:35","slug":"chinas-troubled-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/chinas-troubled-media","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Troubled Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;color: #444444;line-height: 1.7\">Posted: August 11, 2014 in media<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Over the past few months, those who thought the state of Chinese journalism couldn\u2019t possibly get any worse have sadly been proven wrong. <!--more-->A few weeks ago China\u2019s chief censorship agency told Chinese reporters that they can\u2019t pass information on to their foreign counterparts, nor can they independently publicize stories they find through their work. This is on top of newly required courses in Marxist journalism (AKA journalism that props up the Party). While it\u2019s unlikely these regulations can or will be universally enforced, the intended message to journalists is clear: fall in line and keep your heads down.<\/p>\n<p>This all fits with Xi Jinping\u2019s overall approach since assuming power of squashing every hint of potential challenge. In the Telegraph, a well-known journalism professor recently estimated that \u201cthe number of journalists responsible for \u2018independent, public-interest, negative or sensitive\u2019 reports has fallen by 66 percent in the last three years.\u201d This fits exactly with what I\u2019ve seen. Among all the Chinese reporters I knew who were doing real investigative journalism two years ago, all but a few have shifted to more vanilla beats or left the field altogether.<\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time, it was good to be an investigative journalist in China. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, we saw arguably the best officially sanctioned media atmosphere in PRC history. Muckraking private outlets like Caijing and Economic Observer sprouted up. Investigative journalist Wang Keqin came to prominence with stories on AIDS villages and securities fraud. And the Southern Media Group did a series of hard-hitting reports that actually prompted changes to long-standing government policies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sinostand.com\/2014\/08\/11\/chinas-troubled-media\/\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted: August 11, 2014 in media Over th &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/chinas-troubled-media\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[37,1343,93,1351,768],"views":2720,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2646"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2648,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions\/2648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}