{"id":10918,"date":"2011-10-27T05:10:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T05:10:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-15T11:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:49:10","slug":"china-reins-in-entertainment-and-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=10918","title":{"rendered":"China Reins In Entertainment and Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

Political censorship in this authoritarian state has long been heavy-handed. But for years, the Communist Party has tolerated a creeping liberalization in popular culture, tacitly allowing everything from popular knockoffs of \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d-style talent shows to freewheeling microblogs that let media groups prosper and let people blow off steam. Now, the party appears to be saying \u201cenough.\u201d<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Whether spooked by popular uprisings worldwide, a coming leadership transition at home or their own citizens\u2019 increasingly provocative tastes, Communist leaders are proposing new limits on media and Internet freedoms that include some of the most restrictive measures in years. The most striking instance occurred Tuesday, when the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television ordered 34 major satellite television stations to limit themselves to no more than two 90-minute entertainment shows each per week, and collectively 10 nationwide. They are also being ordered to broadcast two hours of state-approved news every evening and to disregard audience ratings in their programming decisions.<\/strong> The ministry said the measures, to go into effect on Jan. 1, were aimed at rooting out \u201cexcessive entertainment and vulgar tendencies.\u201d <\/p>\n

The restrictions arrived as party leaders signaled new curbs on China\u2019s short-message, Twitter-like microblogs, an Internet sensation that has mushroomed in less than two years into a major \u2014 and difficult to control \u2014 source of whistle-blowing.<\/strong> Microbloggers, some of whom have attracted millions of followers, have been exposing scandals and official malfeasance, including an attempted cover-up of a recent high-speed rail accident, with astonishing speed and popularity.<\/strong> On Wednesday, the Communist Party\u2019s Central Committee called in a report on its annual meeting for an \u201cInternet management system\u201d that would strictly regulate social network and instant-message systems, and punish those who spread \u201charmful information.\u201d The focus of the meeting, held this month, was on culture and ideology. <\/p>\n

Analysts and employees inside the private companies that manage the microblogs say party officials are pressing for increasingly strict and swift censorship of unapproved opinions. Perhaps most telling, the authorities are discussing requiring microbloggers to register accounts with their real names and identification numbers instead of the anonymous handles now in wide use.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

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