media - Can a law shutter up disclosures?

ESWN points at a potentially troublesome draft law that bans Chinese media from disclosing incidents, without being authorized explicitly to do so. That would be reversing the current situation where government authorities sometimes desperate try to ban some stories after media have been picking them up (and internet portals passing them on within minutes).
The article shows why this law most likely is not going to work. ESWN quotes Xinhua:

These pitiless statistics shake up people's hearts: In 2005, there were more than 540,000 public incidents of all kinds, causing about 200,000 deaths and direct economic losses of 325.3 billion yuan.

Now, it would take quite a bit of organization to issue licenses for all those incidents. My take? Even if this law would be adopted, it will prove to be unworkable very soon.