WORLD : Forget Freedom, Chinese Press Told
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<i> From Times wire services </i>
BEIJING — Chinese news organizations were told today to forget about press freedom and concentrate on “correct” Marxist ideas, signaling a further crackdown on liberal thinking.
The People’s Daily, the Communist Party newspaper, accused a “small group of thugs” of using the ideal of freedom of the press to confuse their readers, “cook up rumors and instigate attacks on the party and the people” during the May-June pro-democracy protests. Beijing newspapers were cautioned that constitutional rights such as press freedom are not absolute.
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