The end of the affair

摘要

Fiercely independent media mogul and defender of democracy every-where-that was the Rupert Murdoch on display at a Bill Clinton-organised conference in New York on September 16th. The News Corporation chairman castigated Yahoo! for leading Chinese authorities to the identity of a local dissident journalist, subsequently jailed for ten years. He excoriated Beijing's policymakers as "paranoid" for reversing an opening of the mainland media market. And he admitted that his own business in China had "hit a brick wall". In August, News Corporation's Star TV had its innovative joint-venture with Qinghai Satellite, a regional broadcaster, cancelled; and since July, it has been investigated for illegally selling decoders to forbidden News Corp channels.