Tuesday, September 20, 2005

China/Foreign Media Giants/News Corp.




FT: Murdoch says China ‘paranoid’ about foreign media

"Rupert Murdoch has worked hard to avoid offending Chinese leaders ever since he earned their ire with a 1993 declaration that satellite television posed an 'unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere'."

"But now Mr Murdoch appears to be ready to take his diplomatic gloves off again. At a conference in New York on Friday he admitted that News Corp had 'hit a brick wall' in China and accused Chinese authorities of being paranoid about foreign media."

"The comments were the most public and direct expression of dissatisfaction yet by an international media mogul at China's reluctance to open what is the world's largest untapped media market."

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