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Insider: China Censors Rejected Brad Pitt's 'World War Z' (Exclusive)
ReutersJun 03 (TheWrap.com) - Chinese censors have rejected a cut of "World War Z," Paramount's film about the zombie apocalypse starring Brad Pitt, an executive familiar with upcoming releases in China told TheWrap. A Paramount executive said that the studio...Tags: Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Star Trek into Darkness (movie), The Fast and the Furious 6 (movie), Entertainment, Lifestyle and Leisure
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CORRECTED-Turks skip suspected censorship with Internet lifelines
Reuters(Corrects name of VPN to Hotspot Shield, not Hotshot Shield) By Evren Ballim and Paul Sandle ISTANBUL/LONDON, June 5 (Reuters) - Turks are turning to encryption software to thwart any ramp up in censorship of the Internet after six days of anti-...Tags: Political Dissent, Marketing, Arab Spring, Apple iPhone, Egypt
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In a border town, a newspaper forced to be silent
LAREDO, Texas -- A recent wave of kidnappings in Nuevo Laredo was prominently featured in a recent Sunday edition of El Maņana, one of the largest and most long-standing Spanish-language newspapers on the border. But the story carried no byline, and...
Tags: Civil Rights, Kidnapping, Journalism, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics
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In China, let a thousand blogs bloom
China employs an army of censors. As many as 50,000 well-trained monitors police the Internet, and 12 government departments are empowered to search and seize information and shut down users and sites. They work fast: A recent study conducted by two...
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Hollywood yielding to China's growing film clout
Coming soon to a theater near you: China's Communist Party. From demanding changes in plot lines that denigrate the Chinese leadership, to dampening lurid depictions of sex and violence, Beijing is having increasing success in pressuring Hollywood...
Tags: V for Vendetta (movie), Django Unchained (movie), Skyfall (movie), Beijing (China), China
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Thatcher opponents push 'The Witch' up the charts
This post has been corrected. See note below.LONDON -- The British Broadcasting Corp. faced a dilemma Friday: Would it play "Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead" when everyone knows the song has become a biting reference to the late Margaret Thatcher? The network's solution: turn the song into a sound...Tags: Imperial and Royal Matters, Music, The Wizard of Oz (movie, 1939), Elizabeth II, Politics
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The Oscars show, nominated films shortchanged in China
BEIJING — Cecilia Wu, 18, is a self-described film freak. Despite the heavy workload of her senior year of high school here in the Chinese capital, she sees a movie every two or three days and has caught most of the films with Academy Award...Tags: Entertainment Events, Les Miserables (movie), Ang Lee, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Entertainment
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In China, press censorship protests continue
GUANGZHOU, China — Like wedding guests separated across the aisle, the protesters assembled on either side of a gated driveway at the headquarters of the embattled Southern Weekly newspaper. To the right, several dozen supporters of the newspaper...Tags: Parties and Movements, Hong Kong, Beijing (China), Human Rights, Media Industry
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Is Mo Yan courageous, or is he a patsy?
Salman Rushdie thinks Mo Yan is a patsy of China’s Communist government. I respect Rushdie's work, and his own courage as a defender of artistic freedom. But I'm not sure he's right about Mo Yan. Mo accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature this...
Tags: Mo Yan, Nobel Prize Awards, Literature, Entertainment Events, Government
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Myanmar stops censoring articles before they go to print
World NowJournalists in Myanmar will no longer have to send their articles to a censorship board to be scrubbed of anything critical or sensitive before publication, a landmark step announced Monday toward lifting restrictions on the press. But reporters in the... -
Jordan Web 'blackout' protest targets alleged censorship
World NowBlack Iris, 360East, and 7iber are names that may not be familiar to U.S audiences, but for the Jordanian online community they represent websites and blogs with the online presence of Daily Kos or the Huffington Post. Although the websites' purposes... -
What a bummer: Nobel laureate Mo Yan defends censorship
Chinese author Mo Yan was announced in October as the recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature; he's in Sweden now and will be presented with the award Monday. It was at a news conference in Stockholm that Mo made his disappointing statements in support...
Tags: Mo Yan, Google+, Nobel Prize Awards, Literature, Entertainment Events
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