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...Zou has worked as a journalist in China for three decades. She began her career in the country's domestic radio network just two years after the Communist government took power. She worked for the system until 1973 when she was transferred to Radio Peking, Communist China's worldwide broadcasting service...
This criticism of government officials is a new movement in the Chinese press, since the Chinese government began to relax its censorship. Zou claims that the Central Broadcasting Station she once worked for now criticizes government officials as high as ministers and even the vice-premier, but this is unusual, Zou admits. "You still have to have courage, much courage...
...mission of Radio Peking and hence its practices are different from those of the domestic broadcasting service, Zou notes. She points out that, while domestic radio now criticizes government officials, Radio Peking generally does not. "There's no sense to broadcast this to people abroad," she says. Broadcasting critical stories to foreign audiences would not be helpful, she explains, because they are meant to spur improvement within China...
Whether her station participates in the new movement in media. Zou supports the new freedoms. "I think we should have more freedom to criticize the practice and the things [officials] do wrong," she says. But Zou draws the line at criticizing the policies of the state. When asked it the press should be critical of government policies, she dodges the question, always answering with what the press...
When pressed, Zou can think of one instance in which the media should have taken a critical view of the government and its policies the Cultural Revolution, which Mao launched in the sixties to purity the spirit of the Communist revolution. During the movement, many city-dwellers were relocated to the country side and hands of bands of vigilante. "Red Guards" interrogated suspected counter revolutionaries...