Puzzling contradictions of China's internet journalism: a journalist who has worked in China says that 'the internet has strengthened the power of the central government, not undermined it.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Expanding Our Reach)

Look at the Chinese news media through Western eyes, and the view can be depressing. What dominates most of the West's news coverage about Chinese journalists are stories about reporters being brought into court and incarcerated and censorship of new media that appears to constrain rather than enlarge the realm of free speech in China.

Fortunately, this perspective offers a limited view of the revolutionary changes China's news media are experiencing. In China, as in so many places throughout the world, the key propulsion for the enormous change is the Internet. That the pace of ...

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