{"id":15970,"date":"2018-09-22T11:24:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T11:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15970"},"modified":"2018-09-22T11:24:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T11:24:42","slug":"xinjiang-the-story-beijing-doesnt-want-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15970","title":{"rendered":"Xinjiang: The story Beijing doesn’t want reported"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On The Listening Post<\/em> this week: A two-part special on media in China<\/a>: Under-reporting of the state’s treatment of Uighur Muslims, and the tale of the Southern Media Group.<\/p>\n

Xinjiang: The story Beijing doesn’t want reported<\/h2>\n

The alleged mass incarceration<\/a> of Uighur and other Turkic Muslim minorities – more than a million of them – in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region is a story the Chinese government does not want out there.<\/p>\n

For foreign journalists, reporting on it could mean a one-way ticket out of the country. Chinese journalists reporting on it have it worse: they could face threats, violence and in some cases prison sentences.<\/p>\n

The Chinese media echo their government’s security narrative on this; that the measures are necessary given separatist movements in the area prone to violence.<\/p>\n

And the terminology can be telling. What the international media call “internment camps” and “forced indoctrination”, the Chinese media describe as “political education centres” and “counter extremism training schools”.<\/p>\n

Contributors<\/strong><\/p>\n

Megha Rajagopalan – correspondent, Buzzfeed News
Alim Seytoff – director of Uyghur Service, Radio Free Asia
Emily Feng – China correspondent, Financial Times
Einar Tangen – economic adviser to the Chinese government<\/p>\n

On our radar<\/h2>\n

Richard Gizbert speaks to producer Tariq Nafi about how the #MeToo campaign<\/a> is making its mark in German media and how yet another big name in print, Time Magazine, has been bought out by a tech billionaire.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The story of China’s Southern Media Group<\/h2>\n

About six years ago, in 2012, The Listening Post<\/em> reported on what was an under-covered aspect of Chinese journalism: the rise of investigative news outlets.<\/p>\n

One of the organisations we looked at then was the Southern Media Group, which had a track record of investing in deeply reported, muck-raking journalism that held Communist Party officials to account and even resulted in some political and legal reforms.<\/p>\n

That’s not the case now.<\/p>\n

After a few serious run-ins with the authorities, Southern Media and its journalists came under a kind of pressure that has severely handicapped its investigative reporting.<\/p>\n

This is just one case in a landscape that has seen significant shifts. Greater state monitoring and control of media, as well as increased competition and falling advertising revenues have all had an impact.<\/p>\n

The Listening Post<\/em>‘s Meenakshi Ravi reports.<\/p>\n

Contributors<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maria Repnikova – assistant professor, Georgia State University
Chang Ping – former news director, Southern Weekly
Fang Kecheng – former political reporter, Southern Weekly
Steve Tsang – director, SOAS China Institute<\/p>\n

Source:<\/span>\u00a0Al Jazeera<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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