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Radio Free Asia is reporting that over a dozen Chinese newspapers have gone under due to a combination of heavy censorship and falling revenue. Many more look to succumb to the same fate soon. All media there is expected to demonstrate loyalty to the ruling party and to President Xi Jinping.
At least 13 newspapers that rely on advertising revenue but are still subject to the government's strict censorship regime have folded, including the Beijing Morning Post, the Beijing Suburban Daily and the Heilongjiang Morning News, official party newspaper The People's Daily reported.
The Anyang Evening News and Zhangzhou Evening News titles have also been suspended.
Analysts told RFA that as commercial newspapers are increasingly squeezed by growing controls on what they can print on the one hand, and falling revenues and competition from social media on the other, government-run media are experiencing a huge boost resulting from their whitelisted status.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday February 20 2019, @06:06PM
Also - you ought to read this woman's story, Lara Logan. https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=31877¬e=&title=Lara+Logan+tells+all [soylentnews.org] There is a print version of the pertinent part there, a link to the short pertinent part of the interview on Youtube, as well as a link to the 3 1/2 hour interview on Youtube.
That woman seems to me to be what "liberal" should be. She's no conservative, that's for sure. She seems to me to be what liberals should have been, maybe what they used to be. She cares far too much to be some stick in the mud conservative. You ought to listen to what she says about your progressive/liberal/communist media.