Blogging news in China: 'in China, the internet enjoys relatively greater freedom than other media. even so, three of the articles I posted on my blog vanished without notice.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Expanding Our Reach)(Viewpoint essay)

In November 2005, a friend who works for Sina, one of the three major Web portals (1) in China, invited me to write a blog on the site. As executive news editor of a very well respected television channel in China--Phoenix Satellite Television, based in Hong Kong--I was very reluctant to accept her offer.

But given our friendship, I e-mailed her two articles I'd written for a Chinese newspaper, one about U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's visit to China and the other one about the bird flu. I was unwilling to waste time learning how to make a blog work, so I asked her to ...

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