media - Debates hit the blogosphere

The China Digital News reports on two different but both remarkable debates on the Chinese media. Professor Bosco reports about the hate-mail he got after he criticized the China Daily for their explicit pictures of the killed US contractors in Iraq. Nationalism and good arguments seldom seem to go together. It also has a translation of an article on the crackdown on China's more aggressive state-owned media, whose editors have been punished severely. While I disagree with the general "all in China is going bad" approach of the analysis, there are powerful conservative forces trying to rein in the few media that make a difference, so much is clear.