{"id":26302,"date":"2011-09-05T10:05:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T09:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=26302"},"modified":"2017-01-11T16:34:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:34:55","slug":"china-two-newspapers-taken-over-by-propaganda-bureau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=26302","title":{"rendered":"China: Two newspapers taken over by Propaganda Bureau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"chinarealpolitik - Beijing Times and Beijing News to be seized by the Government?\" href=\"http:\/\/chinarealpolitik.com\/2011\/09\/02\/beijing-times-and-beijing-news-to-be-seized-by-the-government\/\" target=\"_blank\">Two outspoken Beijing newspapers<\/a>, the Beijing Times and the Beijing News, have been <a title=\"China Digital Times - Propaganda Bureau Takes Control of Two Beijing Newspapers \" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2011\/09\/propaganda-bureau-takes-control-of-two-beijing-newspapers\/\" target=\"_blank\">brought under the direct authority of the Beijing Propaganda Department<\/a>.\u00a0Previously, the papers were overseen by state-level propaganda authorities. Some reporters claim the move, which was announced to newspaper staff on Friday, is part of a wider struggle over control of the media in <a title=\"Index on Censorship - China\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/china\/\" target=\"_blank\">China<\/a>. There is also <a title=\"The Guardian - Propaganda bureau takes control of two Beijing newspapers \" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/sep\/03\/chinese-propaganda-bureau-beijing-newspapers?CMP=twt_gu\" target=\"_blank\">the fear<\/a> that the move\u00a0may restrict reporters&#8217; abilities to cover events in the Chinese capital and sensitive news from other areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two outspoken Beijing newspapers, the Beijing Times and the Beijing News, have been brought under the direct authority of the Beijing Propaganda Department.\u00a0Previously, the papers were overseen by state-level propaganda authorities. Some reporters claim the move, which was announced to newspaper staff on Friday, is part of a wider struggle over control of the media [&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],"tags":[3740,3739,7364,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26302"}],"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=26302"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84692,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26302\/revisions\/84692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}