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BBC World News Banned from Airing in China

Communist China’s state broadcasting regulator has pulled Britain’s BBC World News from its airways for alleged content violation, including on impartiality and undermining the repressive regime’s ‘ethnic solidarity’.

Paramilitary police officers stand guard in front of a poster of late communist leader Mao

Facebook Announces ‘Paywall’ News Subscription Service

Campbell Brown, Facebook’s head of news partnership, announced this week that the company would be launching a paywalled news subscription service in efforts to appease publishers that are unhappy with the Facebook and Google duopoly on advertising.

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Collapse Begins: Al Jazeera America Cancels All Morning Shows

Al Jazeera America’s inevitable collapse has begun with the elimination of all of its morning programming. Instead of producing its own programming, the basement-rated cable news network will simply re-broadcast Al Jazeera programs from its parent studio in Qatar. Also

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