How China’s New Leadership Continues Efforts to Control the Media
China’s government is increasingly trying to control the message and it’s increasingly having difficulty doing that.
The latest example happened this week in Guangdong, when a government censor replaced the annual New Year’s editorial of a well-respected newspaper. And people didn’t like it.
Marco Werman explores the issue with The World’s Beijing correspondent Mary Kay Magistad, who is currently in Boston.
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