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China earthquake journalists orderered to end negative quake coverage Richard Spencer Beijing is fighting to re-impose control over Chinese society after its unusually open attitude to coverage of the Sichuan earthquake. Alarmed by widespread discussion of the number of people who died in sub-standard buildings, the Communist Party has issued orders to rein in local media, demanding that they focus only on "uplifting" tales of heroic rescue workers. Local officials are barring angry parents from the scenes of their children's deaths, and begging them not to talk to journalists.
(Article continues below) But there are signs of increasing resistance. Parents of pupils who lost their lives at Juyuan School in Dujiangyan, where the first television footage of the disaster was filmed, this week tried to lodge a lawsuit against the authorities. Meanwhile, some of the country's more radical newspapers have openly flouted the party's instructions, carrying detailed reports of the cost-cutting and dodgy practices that led to the rash of school collapses across the earthquake zone. The conflict between the government and the local media – which are all run by branches of the party or government but vary widely in their willingness to tow the official line – dates back to the earliest hours of the disaster.
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