Burma daily debut sets off free media buzz in China
3 April 2013 7:08 AM IST
The military-ruled Myanmar allowing privately-owned dailies to publish for the first time in decades has put China in a piquant spot as its vocal netizens asked when will the communist nation follow suit.
‘Looks like China has got one less ‘friend’ now,’ wrote a netizen in the microblog ‘Should we wait until North Korea bans their media censorship?’
‘This (freedom to publish) is the real Chinese dream,’ wrote a netizen, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported.
It was the dream embraced by editors at state-owned China’s Southern Weekly when their New Year’s daily editorial originally titled ‘China's dream: the dream of constitutionalism’ was censored leading to agitation by its journalists. The article was revised to a piece praising the ruling Communist Party of China and called it ‘We are closer than ever to our dreams’.
‘Looks like China has got one less ‘friend’ now,’ wrote a netizen in the microblog ‘Should we wait until North Korea bans their media censorship?’
‘This (freedom to publish) is the real Chinese dream,’ wrote a netizen, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported.
It was the dream embraced by editors at state-owned China’s Southern Weekly when their New Year’s daily editorial originally titled ‘China's dream: the dream of constitutionalism’ was censored leading to agitation by its journalists. The article was revised to a piece praising the ruling Communist Party of China and called it ‘We are closer than ever to our dreams’.
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