"Have you ever seen a commie drink
a glass of water?"
Posted on 10/23/2005 7:38:57 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
China is paranoid about letting media in: Murdoch
AFP[ TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2005 12:28:29 AM]
BEIJING: News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch has accused authorities in Beijing of being ‘paranoid’ after admitting plans to develop his empire in China have “hit a brick wall”, the Financial Times reported.
Mr Murdoch said Chinese authorities were no longer opening up their vast untapped market to international media companies, reversing their stance from a year ago. The newspaper said Mr Murdoch, who was speaking at a conference in New York organised by former US president Bill Clinton, said the Chinese authorities “were quite paranoid about what gets through”.
Mr Murdoch has spent years courting Chinese officials after angering them in 1993 by saying satellite TV posed an “unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.” So far, News Corp has only a toehold in China, with a licence to operate in southern China’s Guangdong province and in exclusive mainland hotels. Last month, Beijing scuppered plans by the company to expand its broadcasts in China.
A joint venture allowing the media giant to broadcast Channel V and STAR TV through the Qinghai Satellite TV Station in northwest China fell foul of regulators, a News Corp executive. The venture had operated for six months and could reach more than 100m people in the provinces of Qinghai, Liaoning, Xinjiang as well as Chongqing and Beijing municipalities.
At the same conference, Dick Parsons, chairman and chief executive of Time Warner, criticised Internet giant Yahoo’s recent decision to pass documents to the Chinese government that led to the conviction of a local journalist, the paper said. The world’s biggest media company, which is also active in China, said the Chinese authorities wanted to manage the opening up of the country to foreign media at their own pace.
He said he had decided against distributing his AOL Internet business in China because the government wanted to monitor messages sent on the Internet service. “We made a judgement it wasn’t a market we wanted to enter at this time,” he said. Analysts said foreign media firms wanting access to China’s growing market for content and programming may have to alter their expectations or business models to conform with China’s regulatory environment and market realities.
Ping!
Can you blame the Chinese. The media whores lie to further individual careers and companies.
In the case of China, media lies would be better than the truth.
It's a toss up? Trust the media or Communist?
The Chinese shouldn't have anything to worry about ... they're already the utopian society the MSM is hoping to create here.
News is onry about bad tings. But onry good tings happen here. No need for news.
Mr. Murdoch is only now figuring that out??? There shouldn't even have to be an article on this. It's one of those "duh" sentences.
Mr. Murdoch is only now figuring that out??? There shouldn't even have to be an article on this. It's one of those "duh" sentences.
NO S***T Mudroch
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