{"id":25194,"date":"2011-07-29T16:32:55","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T15:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25194"},"modified":"2017-01-09T15:52:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T15:52:46","slug":"china-social-media-response-to-wenzhou-crash-challenges-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25194","title":{"rendered":"China: social media response to Wenzhou crash challenges censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The potent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-07-29\/train-crash-proves-debacle-for-china-s-propaganda-machine-adam-minter.html\">reaction<\/a> from both Chinese netizens and mainstream media in response to Sunday&#8217;s deadly <a href=\"http:\/\/uncut.indexoncensorship.org\/2011\/07\/coverage-of-deadly-train-crash-censored-in-china\/\">train crash<\/a> in Wenzhou has shown how the state&#8217;s propaganda machine is being increasingly challenged. The majority of Chinese media (including state-owned organs) this week ignored <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/07\/25\/us-china-train-censorship-idUSTRE76O1IG20110725\">directives<\/a> issued by the Central Propaganda Ministry not to report on the causes of the crash. Meanwhile, netizens&#8217; use of social media, both to <a href=\"http:\/\/cmp.hku.hk\/2011\/07\/26\/14149\/\">chronicle<\/a> the disaster and to express their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-07-29\/train-crash-proves-debacle-for-china-s-propaganda-machine-adam-minter.html\">fury<\/a> at the government&#8217;s handling of the situation, has led outspoken paper Southern Metropolis Daily to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-07-29\/train-crash-proves-debacle-for-china-s-propaganda-machine-adam-minter.html\">claim<\/a> &#8220;no one, not even someone with the lowest IQ, would choose to challenge the public at this particular point in time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The potent reaction from both Chinese netizens and mainstream media in response to Sunday&#8217;s deadly train crash in Wenzhou has shown how the state&#8217;s propaganda machine is being increasingly challenged. The majority of Chinese media (including state-owned organs) this week ignored directives issued by the Central Propaganda Ministry not to report on the causes of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585,581],"tags":[103,7364,1721,3550],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25197,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25194\/revisions\/25197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}