reaction to Howard French article

The China media is less aggressive in foreign coverage because they are mouth pieces for the Chinese government says Yu Guoming, professor at People's University in Beijing. She says as government mouthpieces, the media is intricately linked with their government's policy and propaganda. I think the pressure of being so closely watched by the government, combined with the rule Chinese editors say the government has over them needing authorization to send reporters overseas or open over seas bureaus- has caused Chinese media to be seriously lacking in the coverage of foreign reporting. It shocked me to hear how after the Burmese soldiers opened fire on unarmed demonstrators, the Chinese media sent out a false report stating the, "Myanmar government has been restrained in handling the monks' protest and didn't use force."

I really believe that because China is a communist government, they run the media with an authoritarian hand which leads to state censorship and control over how much foreign media coverage they want to grant access to their people.