sharon sanders
Editor-in-Chief & President
The manner in which the government is handling the stock market debacle is an example of how they handle any perceived threat to their total control. This is exactly how they handle disease threats too. If social media had not leaked reports of typical pneumonia deaths in 2013 we might never have known about a new avian flu (H7N9) outbreak there:
"Microblogging yesterday said the sudden onset of Minhang District, "a family of four, just two days from discovery to respiratory failure, respiratory failure associated with circulatory failure death of two, in the end is so far not clear what kind of flu". In response, the city health department verification microblogging preaching wrong." March 7, 2013 link
Censors instruct Chinese media how to report on the stock market
14 July 2015 10:28
Vicky Wong
3 min read
Do not cause panic and do not use emotionally charged words like “slump”, “spike”, or collapse”. Those were just some of the guidelines handed out by Chinese authorities to media outlets on how to cover the stock market, according to China Digital Times.
The instruction came after China’s stock exchange plunged by 30 percent last week. The plunge wiped out trillions of dollars worth of market value in just three weeks. The stock market was frozen after trading on $2.6 trillion worth of shares were suspended.
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https://www.hongkongfp.com/2015/07/1...-stock-market/
"Microblogging yesterday said the sudden onset of Minhang District, "a family of four, just two days from discovery to respiratory failure, respiratory failure associated with circulatory failure death of two, in the end is so far not clear what kind of flu". In response, the city health department verification microblogging preaching wrong." March 7, 2013 link
Censors instruct Chinese media how to report on the stock market
14 July 2015 10:28
Vicky Wong
3 min read
Do not cause panic and do not use emotionally charged words like “slump”, “spike”, or collapse”. Those were just some of the guidelines handed out by Chinese authorities to media outlets on how to cover the stock market, according to China Digital Times.
The instruction came after China’s stock exchange plunged by 30 percent last week. The plunge wiped out trillions of dollars worth of market value in just three weeks. The stock market was frozen after trading on $2.6 trillion worth of shares were suspended.
more...
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2015/07/1...-stock-market/