businesses' dilemma
Sep. 19th, 2005 09:54 amhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/17/AR2005091701135.html
"IN THIS COUNTRY it is not a crime for a journalist to complain -- even to complain loudly -- about the government's attempts to manipulate the media. But it is a crime in China, as Shi Tao, a journalist in Hunan, recently discovered. At a meeting in April 2004, a local communist party boss gave Shi Tao and his colleagues verbal orders on how they were to cover the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Shi Tao took notes at the meeting and, using his private
e-mail account, sent off a description of what he'd been told to a pro-democracy Web site run by a Chinese emigre in New York. A few weeks ago, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for doing so."
"IN THIS COUNTRY it is not a crime for a journalist to complain -- even to complain loudly -- about the government's attempts to manipulate the media. But it is a crime in China, as Shi Tao, a journalist in Hunan, recently discovered. At a meeting in April 2004, a local communist party boss gave Shi Tao and his colleagues verbal orders on how they were to cover the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Shi Tao took notes at the meeting and, using his private
e-mail account, sent off a description of what he'd been told to a pro-democracy Web site run by a Chinese emigre in New York. A few weeks ago, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for doing so."