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Jul 18, 2010	China’s Censors Rein in ‘Vulgar’ Reality TV Show QUOTE: The shows [broadcasted on Chinese television] are now forbidden to “hype up marginal issues, show the ugly side of things, or overly depressing, dark or decadent topics,” according to the directive. Instead, the shows have to “maintain core Socialist values.”	New York Times
Jun 03, 2010	In Leaked Lecture, Details of China’s News Cleanups QUOTE: The content of Mr. Xia’s speech, transcribed and posted online by someone who attended the May 15 lecture at Tianjin Foreign Studies University, has become something of a sensation in recent days, providing the Chinese a rare insight into how their news is stage-managed for mass consumption.	New York Times
May 21, 2010	Pakistan blocks YouTube a day after shutdown of Facebook over Muhammad issue QUOTE: A simmering clash between free speech and religious sensibilities in Pakistan burst from the streets onto the Internet on Thursday, as the government blocked the video-sharing site YouTube and other pages it deemed "sacrilegious" to the nation's Muslim majority.	Washington Post
May 17, 2010	Russian Journalists, Fighting Graft, Pay in Blood QUOTE: the violence was an omen, beginning a wave of unsolved attacks and official harassment against journalists, human rights activists and opposition politicians around the region, which includes the Moscow suburbs, but not the city itself. Rarely, if ever, is anyone held responsible.	New York Times
May 16, 2010	Pressure Grows on Spain to Curb Digital Piracy QUOTE: For the third year running, the American trade representative has included Spain on its watch list of countries that breach intellectual property rights because of its “particularly significant Internet piracy.” Critics say it will be extremely difficult to stop illegal downloading in Spain because of the popularity of these Web sites and a perceived indifference to piracy as a crime.	New York Times
Apr 27, 2010	China Moves to Tighten Data Controls QUOTE: China is on the verge of requiring telecommunications companies and Internet service providers to halt and report leaks of what the government deems to be state secrets, the latest in a series of moves intended to strengthen the government’s control over private communications.	New York Times
Apr 21, 2010	After police raid, JMU editor gets crash course on privacy act QUOTE: Congress established the federal Privacy Protection Act in 1980 to protect newsrooms after authorities raided Stanford University’s Stanford Daily in 1971....Subpoenas are the established method for authorities to request photographs or other material from newsrooms...	Daily Progress
Apr 19, 2010	Amazon fights demand for customer records QUOTE: Amazon.com filed a lawsuit on Monday to fend off a sweeping demand from North Carolina's tax collectors: detailed records including names and addresses of customers and information about exactly what they purchased.	CNET
Mar 02, 2010	Abuse Case Rouses India’s Middle Class QUOTE: Girls are molested all the time in India; powerful officials often abuse their office to avoid criminal prosecution; sclerotic courts are painfully slow and often corrupt. But the case is emblematic of the way India’s growing middle class, egged on by a lively news media hungry for sensational stories, is increasingly unwilling to accept these seemingly immutable truths...	New York Times
Oct 24, 2009	With ban over, who should cover the fallen at Dover?: Few in media choosing to capture events, but military posts pictures QUOTE: "Taking pictures of the returning casualties to Dover is a measure of the human cost of war," said Ralph Begleiter, a journalism professor at the University of Delaware... "Do you want the government ultimately to have control over what we see or not see? Or do you want independent observers, an independent press or media, relaying those images?"	Washington Post
Oct 22, 2009	Shut up or be sued: Eastern Europe's media woes QUOTE: The 2009 World Press Freedom index, compiled by Reporters Without Borders, a media watchdog, rates most eastern EU members a lot worse this year than in 2008...	Economist
Oct 19, 2009	Investment firm dares to cry corruption in Russia: British company outlines tax fraud's many accomplices QUOTE: Hermitage Capital Management, once the largest foreign investor in the Russian stock market, is escalating its campaign to force the Kremlin to punish officials suspected of stealing $230 million from the government last year...	Washington Post
Oct 16, 2009	C.I.A. Is Still Cagey About Oswald Mystery QUOTE: For six years, the agency [the C.I.A] has fought in federal court to keep secret hundreds of documents from 1963, when an anti-Castro Cuban group it paid clashed publicly with the soon-to-be assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.	New York Times
Oct 14, 2009	Schwarzenegger signs bill to crack down on paparazzi: The law will toughen existing regulations on paparazzi, but it could be challenged in court on First Amendment grounds. QUOTE: Some legal experts agree that it [the new paparazzi law] raises First Amendment issues and could chill the gathering of information.	Christian Science Monitor
Oct 10, 2009	Argentina Enacts Law on Broadcasters QUOTE: While many media experts have said the old[media] law [in Argentina] was outdated and in need of reform, analysts say the move by the Kirchner government seemed intended to give the executive branch significant discretion in the regulation of broadcasters.	New York Times
Oct 09, 2009	The ZDnet/Iran affair: Who's the Yahoo now? (Notes From the Field) QUOTE: Using information he received from an Iranian blogger, [Richard] Koman accused Yahoo of handing over the account information for 200,000 Iranian bloggers [2] to the country's authorities...	InfoWorld
Oct 08, 2009	Cuba bloggers test government limits QUOTE: [Cuban] Bloggers - many of whom were born after the 1959 revolution - are trying to move debate away from the established official doctrine to exploring social and economic issues	British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Oct 02, 2009	A Promise to Restore Civil Liberties Is Slow to Become Reality in Honduras QUOTE: The de facto president of Honduras, Roberto Micheletti, appeared to have bowed to pressure at home and from abroad on Monday, saying that he would lift his order suspending civil liberties. Since then, he has been in no hurry to keep his promise.	New York Times
Oct 01, 2009	Muzzling the messengers: Italy and the free press (Part 1 of 3) QUOTE: Not since Mussolini’s time has an Italian government’s interference with the media been more blatant or alarming.	Economist
Sep 15, 2009	Cracking the Spine of Libel (The wild Side) QUOTE: English libel laws create particular difficulties for science journalists. Science, after all, is about evaluating evidence. Science journalism, sometimes, requires pointing out when evidence is weak or absent.	New York Times
Sep 13, 2009	Is South Korea backsliding on its democracy movement?: Teachers, citizens barred from political organizing. QUOTE: South Korea has made great strides in strengthening democracy since ousting a military dictatorship some 20 years ago. But some... have warned of backsliding.	Christian Science Monitor
Sep 05, 2009	AP Photo of Dying Marine Criticized: Gates Decries Decision to Distribute Image Despite Family's Protests QUOTE: The controversy [the Associated Press deciding to distribute a photograph of a mortally wounded Marine in Afghanistan over the objections of the Marine's father] goes to the heart of one of the most sensitive realms of war coverage: the public portrayal of the wounded and the dead.	Washington Post
Sep 04, 2009	GQ’s Provocative Article on Russia Will Be Hard to Find in Russia QUOTE: Condé Nast, publisher of GQ, decided not to send copies of the magazine to Russia, to post the article [that criticizes the Russian government] on GQ’s Web site or to include a translated version of it in any of the four magazines it owns in Russia...	New York Times
Aug 31, 2009	Shrinking Newsrooms Wage Fewer Battles for Public Access to Courtrooms (Sidebar) QUOTE: You don’t see newspapers fighting to open court proceedings the way they used to, and people are starting to notice.	New York Times
Aug 27, 2009	What’s Next in National Security Pentagon Probes War-Reporter Screening (Danger Room) QUOTE: The Pentagon is looking into reports that the military’s public affairs apparatus in Afghanistan has been rating reporters according to their degree of sympathy to U.S. war aims.	Wired
Aug 21, 2009	In South Korea, Freed U.S. Journalists Come Under Harsh Criticism QUOTE: in South Korea, human rights advocates, bloggers and Christian pastors are accusing them [the two freed U.S. journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, freed from North Korea] of needlessly endangering the very people they tried to cover: North Korean refugees and the activists who help them.	New York Times
Aug 21, 2009	Worldwide battle rages for control of the internet QUOTE: By reinforcing their efforts to monitor activity online, they [governments] hope to deprive dissenters of information and the ability to communicate.	New Scientist
Aug 03, 2009	Iraq Censorship Laws Move Ahead QUOTE: the Iraqi government moves to ban sites deemed harmful to the public, to require Internet cafes to register with the authorities and to press publishers to censor books.	New York Times
Jul 16, 2009	Chechen Rights Activist Is Slain: U.S. Urges Russia to Bring Estemirova's Killers to Justice QUOTE: Chechnya's most outspoken human rights activist was found shot to death hours after being kidnapped Wednesday, provoking international outrage and calls for renewed scrutiny of Russia's violent policies in the Caucasus.	Washington Post
Jul 15, 2009	Why Palestinian leaders have banned Al Jazeera QUOTE: The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Wednesday banned Al Jazeera television from operating in its territory and threatened to take legal action against the Qatar-based Arabic satellite channel because of allegations it made against President Mahmoud Abbas.	Christian Science Monitor
Jul 14, 2009	In Azerbaijan, a Donkey Suit Provokes Laughs and, Possibly, Arrests QUOTE: Mr. Hajizada, 26, and his fellow activist Emin Milli, 30, were arrested last week in Baku, the capital, in an event their supporters say could signal the beginning of a crackdown on online media.	New York Times
Jul 13, 2009	Chasing Terrorists (and TV Ratings) QUOTE: the cooperation between the former intelligence officers and NBC News — that has raised red flags among a number of veteran journalists, including some within NBC. They say they find it troubling that “The Wanted” blurs the boundaries between government agents and supposedly impartial journalists.	New York Times
Jul 09, 2009	In Honduras, One-Sided News of Crisis: Critics Cite Slanted Local Coverage, Limits on Pro-Zelaya Outlets QUOTE: in Honduras, some of the most popular and influential television stations and radio networks blacked out coverage or adhered to the de facto government's line that Manuel Zelaya's overthrow was not a coup but a legal "constitutional substitution,"...	Washington Post
Jul 07, 2009	Legally Lawless Russia (Remembering Paul Klebnikov) QUOTE: Out of the 250 journalists who have died in Russia since the end of communism, 150 were murdered covering normal, peacetime stories.	Forbes
Jul 03, 2009	Nicaragua: accusations of rigging elections and silencing media QUOTE: Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and the Sandinista-controlled Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) stand accused of rigging last year's municipal elections...	Christian Science Monitor
Jul 02, 2009	Pay-for-Chat Plan Falls Flat at Washington Post QUOTE: The [Washington] Post decided Thursday to cancel plans to charge lobbyists and trade groups $25,000 or more to sponsor private, off-the-record dinner parties at the home of its publisher...	New York Times
Jul 02, 2009	Honduras Targets Protesters With Emergency Decree: Media in Country Also Feel Pressure QUOTE: The new Honduran government clamped down on street protests and news organizations Wednesday as lawmakers passed an emergency decree that limits public gatherings following the military-led coup that removed President Manuel Zelaya from office.	Washington Post
Jul 02, 2009	Thailand's lèse majesté law: Treason in cyberspace QUOTE: ince March 2008 the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (MICT) has blocked 8,300 website pages on lèse majesté [anti-royal family] grounds.	Economist
Jun 29, 2009	Was Wikipedia correct to censor news of David Rohde’s capture? QUOTE: The escape of David Rohde, a New York Times reporter captured last November by the Taliban, has today sparked a fiery debate over media censorship in the open source age. At stake is the Times’ decision not just to tamp down on any news of Rodhe’s kidnapping, but on updates to Rohde’s Wikipedia page...	Christian Science Monitor
Jun 28, 2009	In Kenya, corruption exposé is too hot to sell QUOTE: When British journalist Michela Wrong published her book about the crushing effects of Kenyan corruption a few months back, she knew her material would be explosive. Even today, no bookstore in Kenya offers her book, "It's Our Turn to Eat" for sale. Many booksellers, noting past lawsuits for defamation, fretted over reprisals by politicians named in the book.	Christian Science Monitor
Jun 21, 2009	Police Unleash Force On Rally in Tehran: Obama, in Boldest Terms Yet, Presses Iran to Halt Violence Against Own People QUOTE: Fiery chaos broke out in downtown Tehran on Saturday as security forces blocked streets and used tear gas, water cannons and batons to break up a demonstration against the reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Security forces were seen firing warning shots into the air, but there were also unconfirmed reports that several people were hit by gunfire.	Washington Post
May 31, 2009	Media Cache: The Scoop That Changed Parliament, and News QUOTE: “When papers pay for documentary information it is very different to paying for an interview, where money can encourage overstatement and even falsehood,” wrote Roy Greenslade, a media commentator...”	New York Times
Nov 08, 2008	China Hijacks Popular BitTorrent Sites QUOTE: China is not new to censoring the Internet, but up until now, BitTorrent sites have never been blocked. Recently however, several reports came in from China, indicating that popular BitTorrent sites such as Mininova, isoHunt and The Pirate Bay had been hijacked.	TorrentFreak
Oct 23, 2008	City Room: A Hunger Strike at Clinton's Office QUOTE: ...Bradley Will was shot dead covering antigovernment protests in Mexico....Mexican government arrested two leftist protesters....numerous human rights groups — say is a cover-up by Mexican authorities...	New York Times
Oct 21, 2008	Court Spares Afghan Journalist’s Life QUOTE: An appeals court sentenced a young Afghan journalist to 20 years in prison for blasphemy on Tuesday, overturning a death sentence ordered by a provincial court but raising further concerns of judicial propriety in the case.	New York Times
Jul 19, 2008	Takeovers Captivate Ecuador: Government Links Its Seizure of TV Stations to Corruption Case QUOTE: The government of President Rafael Correa has characterized the takeover of those companies, including television stations watched by about 40 percent of the news audience, as a long-overdue strike for justice against corrupt businessmen who owe Ecuador millions.	Washington Post
May 21, 2008	Iranian Activists Criticize New Restrictions on Web Sites QUOTE: "It's like a big attack," said Parvin Ardalan, who works for http://www.change4equality.net, a Tehran-based feminist Web site affected by the new restrictions. "Now, most sites related to women's and human rights issues have been blocked in one day," she said.	Washington Post
May 20, 2008	White House Says NBC Distorted Bush Response QUOTE: "This deceitful editing to further a media-manufactured storyline is utterly misleading and irresponsible," Gillespie wrote, adding that NBC should air Bush's responses "in full."	Washington Post
Mar 31, 2008	As TV Goes Digital, Some Viewers May Be in the Dark QUOTE: The digital conversion presents a huge logistical and technical hurdle for the communities whose dependence on rabbit-ear-style analog TVs are high, but whose understanding of how to manage the change is low [...] Debra Berlyn, a consultant for AARP, said there is also concern that older consumers might be vulnerable to sales pitches for new, expensive TVs instead of the cheaper converter-box option.	Washington Post
Mar 01, 2008	On the Press Bus, Some Questions Over Favoritism QUOTE: As the two Democratic candidates shuttled between Ohio and Texas this week before Tuesday’s potentially decisive nominating contests, questions over whether reporters were giving each candidate an equally fair shake were thrust into the center of the campaign itself.	New York Times

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