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...Earlier in the day, the Chinese government efforts at media management backfired dramatically, as a large group of women besieged an official tour of visiting journalists to protest the arrests of their husbands, sons and brothers. Six buses full of foreign and Chinese reporters had been taken to a neighborhood southeast of Urumqi's Grand Bazaar to see an auto dealership that was burned by rioters on July 5. (See pictures of the March 2008 riots in Tibet...
...outburst punctured a tightly orchestrated effort to show the media the extent of the destruction wrought by the city's small Uighur community on July 5. Reporters were given a CD that showed several minutes of footage of the mostly Uighur rioters attacking civilians and destroying property. Unlike the official response to the deadly unrest last year in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, when the region was closed to outsiders for several months, journalists in Urumqi were given relatively free rein...
...values" not as an ideal form of government but as a way of correcting inevitably imperfect governments. He spoke mainly of the American example - how freedom of speech allows minorities to petition for equal rights, how competitive elections allow citizens to hold their leaders accountable and how a free media expose corporate and government corruption. Then he made the topic personal. (See pictures of Obama in Russia...
...most direct criticism Obama has offered in Moscow of his Russian hosts, President Dmitri Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who have consolidated both power and control over the press in recent years. As the U.S. State Department reported earlier this year, the Russian government has "restricted media freedom through direct ownership of media outlets, pressuring the owners of major media outlets to abstain from critical coverage and harassing and intimidating journalists into practicing self-censorship." Though Medvedev, who was handpicked by Putin, won the election last year with a reported 70% of the vote, he was aided...
...continued construction of settlements in the Palestinian territories. He even urges President Barack H. Obama to “remind Israelis that all their settlements are hostage to American goodwill.” Some have labeled Judt’s piece, perhaps appropriately, as anti-Zionist: yet another media big-name railing against the State of Israel. But given the tone Obama set in his Cairo Speech, Judt’s ideas, for better or for worse, are emblematic—if not the most accurate articulation—of this administration’s attitude toward Israel...