media - Restrictive draft rules draw fire

Rebecca MacKinnon summerizes the developments on the rather restrictive draft law published last weekend, threathening media with fines if they publish 'incidents' without prior approval. Most interesting - an unapproved - disclosure is that the sections about the fines in the draft law was even new for the authors of the law.
From Caijing Magazine:

The story quotes Yu An, a law professor at Tsinghua University and a member of its drafting committee, as saying, "I have no idea how this clause was added into (the bill). It was not there when the experts first discussed (the bill)."
Ying Songnian, a member of the NPC's Civil and Judicial Affairs Committee who will be one of those reviewing the bill, told Caijing, "based on our experience with SARS, only information openness would help calm people down, and make disaster-relief efforts more effective."

It might be very hard to get this draft law passed, considering the opposition. Getting it executed would also be hardly impossible and would kill the traditional media even faster than they are being killed now by the internet.