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| China blocks proposed Murdoch channel |
| 2005-08-26 |
| Everyone who bought the Fox-blocker, here's a country to which you can move. They have subsidized gas and free health care, too. A plan by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. to operate a prime-time TV channel in China has fallen prey to a Chinese government crackdown on local and foreign media. News Corp., owner of the Fox broadcast network and media assets across Asia and Europe, is already the largest Western TV company in China. But News Corp. was planning to secure a channel for its content that would extend its reach over a much larger area of China, the Wall Street Journal reports. Now the Chinese TV channel involved in the venture has confirmed that the deal is off. The Chinese government has said it won’t approve any new foreign TV channels. News Corp. ran afoul of Chinese officials in 1993 when Murdoch said that satellite TV would undermine totalitarian regimes. Well it undermined the MSM, didn't it? According to the Journal, the Chinese government fears that foreign investment could undermine its control of the media. I dunno. Corporate ownership of our media hasn't changed their Communist Pary loyalty. |
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