China Censors CNN Over Tiananmen (Communists Censoring CNN. Now, *That's* Irony...)

CNN.com ^ | 6/4/04 | Jaime FlorCruz

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

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.

[newgeezer]

What is this thing you call "CNN"?

[martin_fierro]

Yeah, and Fox News is banned in Canada.

[ninenot]

You mean that PRC has not yet adopted American customs, such as treating its citizens with dignity, freedom of the press, right-to-own-guns, no "slave labor," and real jury trials?

Not to worry. Our Commerce Department sees NO REASON to remove PRC from the list of MFN trading partners.

After all, PRC is our Friend!!!