China's more aggressive press.(The Asian Media)
Nieman Reports, December, 1995 by Brauchli, Marcus W.
Good journalism in China today has some unlikely benefactors. Wang Yuqing is one of them. Wang, a capable but deeply frustrated bureaucrat, is deputy administrator of China's National Environmental Protection Bureau. Every week, every month, his office receives dozens of reports of factories spewing ash into the sky or sludge into rivers and lakes. Often, the consequences are dire: environmental pollution is a major contributor to health problems in China.
But when Wang tries to persuade factories to change their ways or shut down, he often discovers the factories belong to ministries, with powerful benefactors in Beijing. So he does the same thing any Washington bureaucrat would do: he calls the press. Sometimes leading "60 Minutes"-style confrontations...
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