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发帖数: 4978 | 1 BEIJING — Al-Jazeera's sole English-language reporter in China has been
expelled, the pan-Arab news network said Tuesday. It's the first time since
1998 that Beijing has kicked out an accredited foreign journalist.
Melissa Chan's expulsion is seen as a hardening of China's attitude toward
international media it views as a threat to the authoritarian government's
authority and global image. The move "seems to be taking China's anti-media
policies to a new level," Bob Dietz, the Asia coordinator for the Committee
to Protect Journalists, said in a statement.
Qatar-based Al-Jazeera said in a statement that it had no choice but to
close its English-language service's bureau because Chan's press credentials
and visa were not extended. Chan is a U.S. citizen who worked for the
network in China for five years. She had reported extensively on sensitive
topics such as illegal seizures of farmland and the imprisonment of
petitioners from the countryside in unofficial "black jails."
Al-Jazeera said no permission to replace Chan was given and its requests for
additional visas for correspondents had gone unanswered. The expulsion does
not impact Al-Jazeera's Arabic-language service, which maintains several
accredited journalists in its Beijing bureau.
Foreign reporters in China often experience harassment, surveillance and
visa problems when government officials are angry at their reports. Over the
weekend, police called in about a dozen foreign reporters, threatening to
revoke their visas for allegedly breaking rules in reporting the case of
blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng.
Al-Jazeera did not say if any reason was given for expelling Chan, who was
not among the journalists called in. China's Foreign Ministry, which
oversees accreditation for international media, did not immediately respond
to a request for information.
The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China said Chinese officials accused
Chan of unspecified violations and were unhappy with some of Al-Jazeera's
coverage, particularly a documentary that Chan had not been involved in. The
documentary, which aired in November, was about China's system of
sentencing minor criminals and political prisoners to labor camp prisons.
The club issued a statement Tuesday saying it was "appalled by the decision
of the Chinese government to take this action."
Al-Jazeera reported extensively on last year's Arab Spring anti-government
uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and elsewhere – events that profoundly spooked
the Communist Party leadership. After calls were posted online for similar
protests in China, Beijing responded with a harsh crackdown on media,
lawyers, writers and government critics.
The director of news at Al-Jazeera English, Salah Negm, defended Chan and
the network's coverage.
"We constantly cover the voice of the voiceless and sometimes that calls for
tough news coverage from anywhere in world. We hope China appreciates the
integrity of our news coverage and our journalism," Negm said in the network
's statement.
A German reporter and a Japanese reporter were the last foreign journalists
expelled from China, in late 1998.
Chan has left China and will be returning to California, where she will be
taking up a Knight Fellowship at Stanford University.
China had pledged to relax restrictions on foreign journalists as part of
its hosting of the 2008 Summer Olympics, but changes have been minor and
conditions have in some ways grown even more hostile.
Foreign reporters working in China must obtain a press card from the Foreign
Ministry before they can apply for a visa. Those documents must be renewed
at the end of each year, and the ministry sometimes delays issuing a press
card for reporters it is unhappy with.
In Chan's case, the correspondents' club, which is not recognized by the
Chinese government, said this year the ministry issued her a two-month press
card rather than the standard one-year accreditation, then extended that
for one month before refusing to give her another extension, forcing her to
leave the country.
Issuing of visas for journalists can take months and some applications
receive no response at all. In February, the Washington Post's ombudsman
wrote that one of the newspaper's two China correspondents, Andrew Higgins,
has not been given a permanent visa to report from inside China since he was
hired in 2009.
At the same time, Beijing is attempting to spread its own pro-China take on
domestic and international events with a major push into foreign-language
media by state broadcaster CCTV and the official Xinhua News Agency. | w*********g
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发帖数: 2045 | 3 记者自己不是没有责任。美国人的看法:
"throwaway account here. So my friend here in Beijing is a journalist for a
similar organization, and says that they actually did find a regulation they
ran foul of to kick them out. Their cameraman was unregistered and filmed
some footage in Tiananmen without a permit. In any case, pretty much
everyone here is probably breaking dozens of vague or obscure laws, so they
just need to pick one or the other and toss you out."
"Not to take away from the video, these jails are awful places that need to
have an investigative light shown on them, but that woman is not a very good
investigative journalist. In her on camera segments she does not act
professionally and is not unbiased (although I will admit it's hard to be
unbiased about a subject like this), she gives us hyperbolized versions of
facts that she should just be stating outright, and interferes with the
situation multiple times when she should have been a passive observer.
What I'm saying is that this was not a objective piece to that lets the
viewer decide what to think, (which is becoming less common) it is an
opinion piece designed to tell you what to think. Situations like this are
awful but also need to be handled delicately, something she did not do well.
In fact in several instances inside the jail she seemed to actively hurt
the plight of the women there and exasperate already stressed emotions." | s*********0
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