Talk:Media of the People's Republic of China

message: #REDIRECT Talk:Mass media in China
Fax machines are perfectly legal in China and in fact China is one of the largest exporters of fax machines and scanners in the world. Why was the lie that fax machines are illegal because they might transmit illegal documents placed on this article? It is a disgrace.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.234.98.85 (talk) 23:55, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

message: Unless there is some ambiguity, the PRC is China and doesn't need to be referred to as "mainland".  Instantnood's last edit replaced every occurrence of China with "mainland", more than 50 times.  Which amounts to renaming the PRC to a regional term.  I'm reverting this. SchmuckyTheCat 18:33, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If all three different ideas are to be referred to by the same word - "China", it's not easy for readers to figure out which idea is each occurance of the word "China" actually referring to. The ambiguity is there, and has to be avoided. — Instantnood 19:24, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, the very first sentence says it's about the mainland removing any ambiguity. SchmuckyTheCat 19:39, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not every single mentioning of "China" or "Chinese" refers to mainland China or mainland Chinese. For instance, there's no "government of mainland China", but "government of the PRC", and no "ethnic mainland Chinese", but "ethnic Chinese". — Instantnood 19:49, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There are four nominal governments of China; the People's Republic of China, Republic of China, Hong Kong and Macau.  ROC is fully independent of the PRC, whereas Hong Kong and Macau are Special Administrative Regions with their own Chief Executives.  There are different Chinese ethnicities, the dominant being Han Chinese.  The Han are a super-majority in the PRC, ORC, HK, Macau and Christmas Island, and a sizable majority in Singapore. - MSTCrow 01:27, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Mainland/PRC/China

message: But I don't have time now, nor the knowledge of this subject. Sentences such as:
:Nonetheless, the contacts that do occur are having an impact on individual Chinese journalists, according to people interviewed for this study
Occur throughout. - Estel (talk) 11:18, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs proof read... 

message: Maybe consider adding that Google agreed to ban certain words like Tiananmen Square among other words on Google China, so the government would not ban their web site from China. I do not have a source -ChristopherMannMcKay 02:21, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Google

message: This article is really about Government control of media in the People's Republic of China.  I think it needs to be renamed.  --Ideogram 18:40, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Some statements in the article such as "Chinese films have enjoyed box office success abroad" are unrelated to government control. Shawnc 22:08, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article subject 

message: It would be nice if this article would state which government agency's control certain parts of the media. For example, I know for a fact that http://english.gov.cn//2005-10/09/content_75331.htm controls the religious movements, that http://www.chinaembassy.org.in/eng/mt/jyjs/t61109.htm controls radio, tv, film and the internet, but what controls the journalistic press? Is it just the prosecutors? or is it a silent force?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.168.121.178 (talk) 10:58, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Specific government Agency's?

message: In the external links section the link where "Much of the information here seems to be a summary of this monograph" is dead
heres the live link, i dont know how to attach it to the article, so please do it yourselves
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/the-chinese-media-more-autonomous-and-diverse-within-limits/1.htm  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.7.175.159 (talk) 10:15, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  They real link 

message: Unless some footnoting appear for the political and controversial content, I'll be going through them and deleting them in a few days.  Some of this crap borders on soapboxing.  Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 06:30, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You are right there are barely any citations.PonileExpress (talk) 17:52, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article is in desperate need of trimming or sourcing 

message: This article seems rather pro-PRC biased to me. It really should be changed to NPOV.--redlock (talk) 00:40, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bias 

message: I cannot help but note the partisan nature of these edits by user:asdfg12345. If these departments are controlled by the Propaganda dep't, one can easily click on the links to find out. There is no need to emphasize the label "propaganda" all the time. The second part of the edit, saying that media serves the need of the one-party state, is a pejorative clincher that negates much of the preceding neutral clauses. It is unmistakably partisan and therefore was also removed. Most of the mechanical fixes, however, are fairly good, as was getting rid of some of the more "pro-CCP" sounding phrases of the paragraphs. Colipon+(Talk) 09:29, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You are right, asdfg, if this article was about "propaganda in the PRC". It is not. It is about "media" in the PRC. Inserting elements to highlight the "propaganda" is partisan. Colipon+(Talk) 00:30, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Partisan edits 

message: This article could use some attention, see my comments on its discussion page. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  18:37, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: [[PRC internal media]]

message: I am deleting the sub-section titled "Impact of Tiananmen Crackdown,' which had been placed under the header of "weakening of party controls."  The Tiananmen Square massacre catalyzed a crackdown on press freedom in China and a tightening of party controls; prior to 1989, as compared to today, China was much more free for both domestic and foreign reporters.  Most of the content in this section is unsourced, in any case. Homunculus (duihua) 03:20, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Impact of Tiananmen Crackdown'