Reblogged from Consortium of Defense Analysts:
Edwin Wong and Christine Haughney report for the New York Times, Nov. 17, 2013, that Michael Forsythe, an award-winning reporter for Bloomberg News whose article on the ties of a Chinese tycoon with families of Communist Party leaders was suppressed for political reasons by top editors, was suspended last week by Bloomberg's managers.
On Nov. 13, Hong Kong-based Forsythe was asked to go to the floor where human resources offices are, and he did not return to the newsroom, employees said.
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Bloomberg News censors itself and punishes its reporter for - GASP! - reporting the news, because it doesn't want to lose its market in the one-party dictatorship of China. What good is the Constitution's promise of freedom of the press when the press censors itself? -Dr. Eowyn
