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China’s New Leaders Will Inherit Media Revolution
Tuesday, November 6, 2012 2:22
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China will see a changing of the guard beginning November 8, and there is a media revolution happening in China that new leaders may find impossible to stop. All information in China has been tightly controlled, as well any news released to outside media. State-controlled media like 'the Peoples Daily' have functioned as the Communist Party's mouthpiece by reporting events but applying the Party's spin. Many events do not get reported at all. But these media face pressure to keep up to an Internet community that is almost instant in reporting uncensored news on anything and everything. [Du Feijin, Director, Political Department, Peoples Daily]: “Now especially as the media environment has changed, if you don't report it, the Internet will anyway, right?” China has an online community of over 500 million people, and 60 percent of them use twitter-like microblogs, or 'Weibo' in Chinese, to post, debate and gossip. No matter how the regime tries to restrict the spread of politically sensitive content, a young urban middle class with smartphones and laptops look for information online rather than in traditional media. [Jia Mingjie, Internet Savvy User]: “Now you can find a lot of sources of information and news items which are more truthful, and you can find them more easily. Now, as soon as something happens, all you have to do is look on your microblog and you'll know about it.” Some officials appear to favor this new online media. Others fear it will bring down the …
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