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Quake Moves Xinhua Past Propaganda

Chinese news agency focuses coverage on victims, not government

By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff

Posted May 13, 2008 7:01 PM CDT

(Newser) – Xinhua, the Chinese state news agency, is better known for People’s Republic propaganda than hard-hitting journalism. But in the aftermath of the catastrophic Sichuan earthquake, the Wall Street Journal reports, the agency has published hundreds of up-to-the-minute accounts, many of them on the anguish... Read full story »

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