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White House Attack on VOA Misguided and Dangerous
The White House attack on the integrity of the reporters and editors at Voice of America is unwarranted and dangerous. Its claim in its April 10, 2020 1600 Daily posting that “Journalists should report the facts, but VOA has instead amplified Beijing’s propaganda” is not only false, it puts VOA journalists around the world in danger.
But first some history.
The Voice of America is indeed owned…
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WSJ Journalist Bounced from China and Why It Matters
WSJ Journalist Bounced from China and Why It Matters
The Washington Post reported today China denied the visa renewal for Chun Han Wong, a Wall Street Journal reporter. The action came after Wong helped write a report on allegations the cousin of Chinese president Xi Jinping was involved in gambling and potential money laundering in Australia.
As the Post pointed out in the past the Chinese government has retaliated against foreign journalists…
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How tariff wars affect Main St. America
How tariff wars affect Main St. America
Here is just a quick look at how imposing tariffs on one place comes back to bite American businesses in the ass.
U.S. whiskey exporters struggle after year of EU tariffs
Some key points:
The Distilled Spirits Council said that 63% of U.S. whiskey exports have faced retaliatory tariffs from the European Union, China, Turkey, Canada and Mexico. The EU currently levies 25% tariffs on U.S. whiskey.
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Why foreign assistance is important to US economy
Why foreign assistance is important to US economy
Too many Americans are just plain wrong when it comes to foreign aid.
In January 2016 a Kaiser Foundation survey showed that 15 percent of the American people believe the foreign aid budget represents more than half of the U.S. federal budget. The average answer from the survey was that the US spend 31 percent of its budget on foreign aid. Only 3 percent had the right answer: 1-1.5 percent.
An…
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New Provision Threatens VOA Editorial Independence
New Provision Threatens VOA Editorial Independence
This item first appeared in the blog site of the SPJ International Committee
Politico reported this week a provision included in the just-passed National Defense Authorization Act would get rid of the bipartisan board running Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and other news outlets with a single CEO nominated by the president.
The Voice of America has had a long and strong reputation for…
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London-Based Chinese Journalist Defends Chinese Repression
London-Based Chinese Journalist Defends Chinese Repression
No big surprise. A reporter for the official Chinese media defends the repressive actions of the Chinese government against a BBC reporter and an independent candidate for office in China.
The World According to a CCTV Journalist Based in London
The BBC event that sparked this reporter’s tirade is BBC stopped from visiting China independent candidate (Screen capture below.)
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Chinese Pollution Issues Stress Need For Free & Independent Media
Chinese Pollution Issues Stress Need For Free & Independent Media
The Chinese government leadership have a real problem. Technology is giving people and local groups more power to look into issues and to get the results of their investigations to a lot of people in a hurry.
The latest is a report that students at the Changzhou Foreign Language School in Changzhou in Jiangsu province were falling ill at an abnormal rate.
Chinese children ‘fall sick at new school’
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Criminal Defamation Laws Hit
Criminal Defamation Laws Hit
The growing use of criminal defamation laws around the world add to the general decline in press freedom.
The Committee to Protect Journalists has a great program called Critics are not Criminals. This is a worthy effort that deserves the support of not only all journalists but all civil libertarians.
The latest case is in Honduras. A reporter looked into an alleged corrupt local police chief.…
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China Continues on Road of Information Supression
China Continues on Road of Information Supression
One thing you have to give to the government/Communist Party leadership in China is that they are ever vigilant about ways people can get information.
In the early days it was merely controlling the newspapers and radio stations. Now, with the Internet and SMS with mobile phones, the Party has been in the forefront of keeping the outside world from informing the Chinese people.
It is almost an…
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China: Independent journalism has a vile effect on society.
China: Independent journalism has a vile effect on society.
Nice to see the leadership in China is being honest about their attitude toward freedom of press and speech. In the past, they used would at least claim to be for freedom of the press but within limited “guidelines.”
Now, they are straight out saying press freedom is vile.
Websites run by Sina Corp, Sohu.com Inc, Netease Inc, Phoenix New Media Ltd’s iFeng and others had engaged in “actions that…
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Prejudice: A Natural Outcome of Censorship
Prejudice: A Natural Outcome of Censorship
China Digital Times pulled a great item from an interview with Chinese publisher Bao Pu and writers Guo Xiaolu and Hao Qun (who goes by the pen name Murong Xuecun) from the June 3 issue of Foreign Policy.
The blockage of the Internet by the Chinese government means, said the authors and publisher, that people are not getting enough information to make rational decisions.
[R]elatively few people…
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China steps up war on press freedom
China steps up war on press freedom
The Washington Post did a great piece on how inspectors for the Chinese government said the Chinese propaganda office is not being aggressive enough.
“The effect of guiding culture and art to serve socialism and art is not obvious enough,” Wang Haichen, the leader of the inspection team, was quoted as saying. “Its news propaganda is not targeted enough, or effective enough.
“It needs to…
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Chinese Foreign Minister Shows Contempt For Free Press
Chinese Foreign Minister Shows Contempt For Free Press
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi decided that any questions about China’s human rights record is not something he likes being asked. Likewise, he figures no one else should be asked about it either.
An old friend, Frank Ching in Hong Kong reported about a little dust up during a joint press conference Yi had with Canada’s foreign affairs minister, Stephane Dion.
Seems a reporter asked Dion aobut…
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Getting around Chinese censorship to honor Tiananmen demonstration
Getting around Chinese censorship to honor Tiananmen demonstration
This piece was first posted at the blog site of the International Journalism Community of the Society of Professional Journalists.
June 4 is remembered as the day the Chinese government brutally shut down a peaceful demonstration in Tiananmen Square in Beijing that was calling for reforms in the ruling Communist Party and in the government.
One of the most famous scenes is the lone man with…
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Migrants: Where to and where from
Migrantss: Where from and where to and easy local-global stories
If you ever wondered why there is a better selection of tortillas in your local store or why getting good garam masala is suddenly much easier, the Pew Research Group has a quick way to look at immigration and emigration.
The Pew Group has a GREAT interactive graphic to look at immigrant and emigrant movements during the past 25 years at Origins and Destinations of the World’s Migrants, from…
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Hypocrisy of the Brazilian Congress Not Made Clear in News Reports
Hypocrisy of the Brazilian Congress Not Made Clear in News Reports
News stories out of Brazil are full of the impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Roussefff. The stories cover the charges against Dilma (in Brazil they use first names for a second reference) and the reaction of the very frustrated Brazilian populace. What I have not seen much of, however, are reports about the people pushing for impeachment.
Let’s start with the prime motivator and…
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Economic Stability Needs Free Press
Economic Stability Needs Free Press
Despite all the complaints about how poorly “the media” covered the Wall Street shenanigans that led to the 2008 Great Recession, people still turn to the unfettered and independent media outlets for news about stocks, bonds and the general state of the economy. In fact, the whole system of savings and investment would not work without a free press.
The media — and this includes knowledgable…
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