Media Censorship

Melissa Chan, Journalist Expelled From China, Reflects On Experience

latimes.com | Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.14.2012

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After filing 400 stories from China, reporter Melissa Chan never thought she'd wind up in the headlines herself. Chan returned to Southern Californ...

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Are We Getting China-Africa Media Relations Wrong?

Iginio Gagliardone | Posted 04.23.2012

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While it is evident how China has been developing a distinctive domestic approach to the Internet and the role of media in society more generally, whether and how the ideas informing this approach are spreading is far less clear.

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China Places Strict Limitations On Broadcasters

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 04.15.2012

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SHOWS CAPPED: China's broadcasters can no longer show any foreign TV series during prime time or let such shows make up more than 25 percent of daily ...

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Time for the Supreme Court to End FCC Indecency Censorship

Berin Szoka | Posted 03.12.2012

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Invalidating the FCC's indecency rules doesn't mean the government can do nothing. But our Constitution requires that government focus on helping parents -- rather than choosing for them.

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Indian TV Includes Edgy Shows Without The Edge

AP | GARETH CONDE | Posted 03.03.2012

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NEW DELHI (AP) — Would the sex, drugs and rock-n-roll fueled TV show "Californication" be worth watching without the sex, drugs and rock-n- roll? Wh...

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Egyptian Group Seeks to Ban One Thousand and One Arabian Nights

Firas Al-Atraqchi | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the latest effort to censor texts considered to be "offensive to the public good", an Egyptian NGO is attempting to ban the popular book One Thousand and One Arabian Nights.

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Citizens United Ruling Will Liberate Dot-Org News Sites From IRS Rules Curbing Advocacy

Peter Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011

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The legal intelligentsia are mistaken. Citizens United may be the most consequential First Amendment decision -- in terms of expanding free speech rights -- since New York Times v. Sullivan.

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Reading the Pictures: Government Colluding With BP on Media Censorship?

Michael Shaw | Posted 05.25.2011

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These stills call for a blunt examination of how much BP is leveraging the crisis primarily to mitigate perceptual damage to the corporation.

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Stevenson High School Students Raise Censorship Concerns With Administrators

Freedom Project | December 17, 2009 10:59 PM | Posted 05.25.2011

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Evan Ribot said student leaders at the Statesman have given this speech too many times to deaf ears. The Stevenson High School student newspaper sta...

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Put Article 19 into Action in Asia

Libby Liu | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama called for the lifting of restrictions on the Internet and Twitter in China. Ironically, China's state-run People's Daily online censored these very comments from its translation.

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Olbermann-O'Reilly: Détente We Don't Want

Michelle Schweiger Schecter | Posted 05.25.2011

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A sandbox brawl between Keith and Bill Has left their parents feeling ill They want their boys to get along Yet the ultimate result is quite wrong

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Tell Media: Include Single-Payer in Healthcare Debate

Isabel Macdonald | Posted 05.25.2011

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The insurance lobbies and many politicians may not want to talk about single-payer. But that makes it all the more important that the media do.

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Internet Censorship Legislation Could Make It Illegal For U.S. Companies To Aid Repressive Governments

The Guardian | Bobbie Johnson and Daniel Nasaw | Posted 05.25.2011

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Internet activists are urging Barack Obama to pass legislation that would make it illegal for technology companies to collaborate with authoritarian c...

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Dear President Obama: In Talking to China, Remember its People

Rebecca MacKinnon | Posted 05.25.2011

If you really want to take U.S.-China relations to a new level that rises above the day-to-day issues, you need to find new ways to engage the Chinese people themselves -- not just their government.

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Faith! Family! Films! And the Crystal Teddy Goes to...

David Sterritt | Posted 05.25.2011

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What riles me is the business of peddling movies on DVD after scrubbing them squeaky clean, or as we used to say in pre-digital antiquity, censoring them.

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Media Must Raise, Not Lower The Bar For Palin For Thursday's Debate

Brian Ross | Posted 05.25.2011

Given that Bush has grounded the ship of state on an iceberg turned loose by global warming, the failure to hold Palin up to the same standards as any other vice presidential candidate would be an act of gross irresponsibility.

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Hardliner Repression of Iranians Online

Elham Gheytanchi | Posted 05.25.2011

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As Tehran's nuclear crisis grabs headlines, an ominous development is taking place inside Iran: the escalation of state repression against Iranian dissidents online.

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Sex and the Swedish Censor

Jacqueline Leo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Although Svennson's initiative is directed at television, it will have a chilling effect on other advertising if it passes Parliament, and it may even affect French and British politics.

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Olympics Committee Admits Internet Censorship Deal With China

ABC News | Posted 05.25.2011

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Some International Olympic Committee officials cut a deal to let China block sensitive websites despite promises of unrestricted access, a senior IOC ...

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Can't Take a Joke

Mary Lyon | Posted 05.25.2011

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The New Yorker editors could have put a bit more thought into it than just -- "let's provoke." Cause some things just may not be all that funny.

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