A Year of Media Crackdown
China’s official Xinhua news agency issued a list of its top 10 stories for the year that was an excellent example of the kind of coverage the country’s leaders like to see.
But one top story from 2005 not covered by the agency was the government’s use of sackings and jailings to rein in journalists and editors seen to challenge the authority of party propagandists, writes the Financial Times.
