http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-04/08/content_9699239.htm
About one hundred media workers were blacklisted in 2009 for "illegal deeds like bribery and blackmail." More than 20 were convicted of offenses. Apparently more than ten major newspapers nationwide, including the Beijing Times and the Guangzhou-based 21st Century Business Herald, received warnings or were suspended for publishing false reports in 2009.When nine journalists from eight media organizations had received jail sentences, news leaked that journalists were taking hush money to cover up a deadly coal mine accident in north China. They accepted the bribes from the owner of the coal mind to cover up the deaths of over 35 workers in the mine. All in all there were over 76 instances of taking bribes and blackmailing. Punishment will occur.
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ReplyDeleteThis adds more fuel to the fire that China is not as free as they claim. It seems that nothing but the economy (and even that we're not wuite sure about) is really free. This is a major blow to the Chinese people's ablility to get unbiased information.
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