China censors CNN over Tiananmen

[maddezmom]

BEIJING, China (CNN) -- China's government censors have been repeatedly blacking out CNN's coverage of the 15th anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen crackdown.

Since CNN started airing a series of Tiananmen-related packages last Monday, all but one of them have been censored.

Audio and video have been repeatedly blacked out -- sometimes selectively, but most of the time completely -- whenever CNN shows reports on the crackdown.

Live shots by Jaime FlorCruz from Beijing and Mike Chinoy in Hong Kong, as well as interviews with guests, including Columbia University's Andrew Nathan and former U.S. ambassador to China James Lilley, have all been blacked out.

CNN Correspondent Stan Grant's report on Chinese returning home from exile to do business was the only exception.

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more: http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/06/04/tiananmen.cnn/

[jeff30997]

1. What a surprise.

[The Zanti Regent]

2. So what else is new?

Rove censors CNN all the time!

[dusty64]

3. Well, seeing that

they are not bothered at all about being censored here at home this shouldn't be much of a problem for them. Bet they'd even be happy to spread government talking points and propaganda for them too.

[mrbill]

4. this one is burned onto my brain.........

never forget.

those chinese power bosses are assholes.

[Justice]

5. Oh, so press remembers how to spell word censor

I thought they forgot.

[Pert_UK]

6. I was in China last year.......

You wouldn't believe how many people genuinely believed that this massacre had never happened and that Westerners had been duped into believing it by corrupt media and governments.

OK, so they may have a point about the corrupt media and governments, but it was still gobsmacking that they'd fallen for their own government's lies so profoundly.

Regrettably, Chinese people are raised to believe that they're objectively superior to other nations and that their government is their only infallible source of information.

Not all of them fall for it, but it's not surprising that many do, given the lack of alternative information that they have.

Outside my tower block their were photos and articles depicting alleged Falun Gong (sp?) atrocities which just beggared belief.