{"id":39603,"date":"2021-12-08T15:48:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T06:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/08\/journalists-in-china-face-nightmare-worthy-of-mao-era-press-freedom-group-says"},"modified":"2021-12-08T15:48:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T06:48:43","slug":"journalists-in-china-face-nightmare-worthy-of-mao-era-press-freedom-group-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39603","title":{"rendered":"Journalists in China face \u2018nightmare\u2019 worthy of Mao era, press freedom group says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reporters Without Borders calls increasing media oppression in China a \u2018great leap backwards\u2019 and says Hong Kong journalism is \u2018in freefall\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Xi Jinping has created a \u201cnightmare\u201d of media oppression worthy of the Mao era, and Hong Kong\u2019s journalism is in \u201cfreefall\u201d, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF).<\/p>\n<p>In a major report released on Wednesday, the journalism advocacy group detailed the worsening treatment of journalists and tightening of control over information in China, adding to an environment in which \u201cfreely accessing information has become a crime and to provide information an even greater crime\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/08\/journalists-in-china-face-nightmare-worthy-of-mao-era-press-freedom-group-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporters Without Borders calls increasing media oppression in China a \u2018great leap backwards\u2019 and says Hong Kong journalism is \u2018in freefall\u2019Xi Jinping has created a \u201cnightmare\u201d of media oppression worthy of the Mao era, and Hong Kong\u2019s journalism is in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,48,238,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-media","category-press-freedom"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39604,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39603\/revisions\/39604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}