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: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday February 20 2019, @06:28PM (2 children)
Kind of like the Trump haters that refuse to open their eyes to what's coming across the border.
Illegal border crossings are at a 47 year LOW. [cnbc.com]
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 20 2019, @06:53PM (1 child)
They don't report the ugly truth
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 20 2019, @08:13PM
Fox and Trump truly broke the conservative brain.