Article: Activists Criticize China Media Controls

BEIJING - Journalism and human rights groups on Tuesday criticized China's new controls on foreign news agencies as harmful to Chinese society and a possible threat to coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Regulations released Sunday give the government's Xinhua News Agency control over distribution within China of news, information and other services from foreign agencies. Xinhua said it would delete items deemed to violate national unity or social stability.

"These new regulations on the distribution of foreign news are a step backward," Joel Simon, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, said in a statement.

The rules appear designed to shut out foreign news ...

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