Chinese freedom of the press better than American !
By andygogo
@andygogo (1579)
China
January 3, 2007 11:38am CST
Chinese freedom of the press better than American !
I am shure, that you like what I just read in the New York Times
under
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/10/opinion/10kris.html?oref=login&pagewanted=print&position=
I give you th title anf first para:
Qoute:
Our Not-So-Free Press
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Paging China! Help us! Urge the U.S. government to respect freedom of the press!
It does sound topsy-turvy, doesn't it? Generally, it's China and Zimbabwe that are throwing journalists in prison, while the U.S. denounces the repression over there.
But now similar abuses are about to unfold within the United States, part of an alarming new pattern of assault on American freedom of the press. In the last few months, three different U.S. federal judges, each appointed by President Ronald Reagan, have found a total of eight journalists in contempt of court for refusing to reveal confidential sources, and the first of them may go to prison before the year is out. Some of the rest may be in prison by spring.
1 response
@estherlou (5015)
• United States
3 Jan 07
I don't know about chinese press. In our country we enjoy freedom of the press, but that just means the government doesn't censor our news. It can and usually is biased though, because for some reason our media tend to be quite liberal in their viewpoints and tend to disparage conservative views. You can get both sides by searching for papers known to be liberal or conservative in their views.
