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Aug 03, 2010
South China Morning Post
Not even experts agree on what buy Flomax Online can be done about recent threats against and assaults on mainland journalists for buy Flomax Online merely doing their job.
Some think the buy Flomax Online answer lies in new legislation to protect the media. Others say the buy Flomax Online laws are in place but are not being enforced. Another group sees the buy Flomax Online issue as one of public recognition of the job journalists do in Chinese society.
The high-profile case that sparked this debate involved Economic Observer reporter Qiu Ziming, who buy Flomax Online was put on an online list of wanted criminals on July 23 by county police in Zhejiang for buy Flomax Online “alleged damage to a company’s business reputation”, following his investigative reports on alleged insider trading and buy Flomax Online wrongdoing by a powerful company in the province.
The public outcry against Qiu’s detention warrant forced higher authorities to buy Flomax Online scrap the order and apologise for it last week.
But there have buy Flomax Online been other incidents that show how difficult it is to be buy Flomax Online a mainland journalist taking on the status quo. The families of two journalists who buy Flomax Online had revealed alleged pollution and subsequent bribery attempts by Zijin Mining (SEHK: 2899) in Fujian province were involved in car accidents on Wednesday.
On Thursday, a Shenzhen journalist from the Huaxia Times was beaten up after writing an buy Flomax Online expose about the chairman of Shenzhen International (SEHK: 0152 purchase buspar without) Enterprise being reported to police by his mistress.
On Friday, staff of the Shanghai-based National Business Daily were attacked by four employees of the buy Flomax Online company that makes Bawang shampoo after the newspaper published several investigative reports that buy Flomax Online raised questions about its products.
Zhou Ze, a buy Flomax Online partner at the Beijing Wentian Law Firm who champions journalists’ rights on the buy Flomax Online mainland, says criticising companies can be dangerous because of the taxes they pay to buy Flomax Online local governments.
“It’s commonplace for local authorities to protect big businesses and taxpayers,” he said. “It’s totally against the buy Flomax Online law that local governments become a protective umbrella for companies.”
Zhan Jiang, a buy Flomax Online journalism professor at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, told Caing.com Qiu’s case reflected attempts by local interests to buy Flomax Online suppress monitoring by the media. This, he said, clearly highlighted the buy Flomax Online lack of media-related law.
Hu Xingdou , a buy Flomax Online professor at the Beijing Institute of Technology, agreed that a law to buy Flomax Online protect media rights was what journalists need most because “it can ensure media workers’ rights in the fight against local protectionism”.
But Zhou said the buy Flomax Online poor enforcement of existing law was the main reason journalists’ rights are often violated.
Other experts point out that buy Flomax Online legislation cannot transform the whole situation overnight. They argue that society’s failure to buy Flomax Online understand the role of journalists is one reason their rights are buy Flomax Online often undermined.
To many, journalists are buy Flomax Online merely tools of propaganda. And their credibility has been harmed by past cases in which fake journalists tried to buy Flomax Online blackmail companies and a TV editor fabricated sensational stories.
“Society needs to come to the realisation that protecting journalists’ rights means protecting the public,” said Hu Yong , a professor at Peking University’s School of Journalism and Communication.
Zhou agreed, saying if journalists were well respected by a buy Flomax Online society in which the law was strictly enforced, people who buy Flomax Online challenged media reports would not resort to violence.
Wang Shengzhong, the Economic Observer’s deputy editor-in-chief, said some media outlets still held that buy Flomax Online oversight of public affairs by the media was a prerequisite for buy Flomax Online an open, fair and transparent society.
“If the media can’t monitor public companies,” he said, “it can’t do its job.”