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Scholars working with newsmakers in China, however, have shown how the moral-political and professional conceptions they are guided by have been formed in relation to their politically particular circumstances. The need to “do the Party’s propaganda work” is regarded, in China’s context, as an unavoidable condition of participation in the news industry. __The opportunity to produce informative reports on publicly important affairs is, meanwhile, recognized as something that only arises occasionally and only for newspapers with the ample financial resources, adequate political backing, and extensive networks that it takes to produce such reports.__ Many journalists in China thus think of their profession as a practice not simply of public truth-speaking, but of __strategically navigating the demands of various Party authorities to build up their newsmaking capacities__.
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
Between Twitterland and the Muskverse there was a radical divergence in outlook. Twitter prided itself on being a friendly place where coddling was considered a virtue.
Essay | the Real Story of Musk’s Twitter Takeover
wsj.com
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How to Stop Junk Mail
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