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Survey says Hong Kong residents suspect media self-censorship
Apr 27, 2011, 4:35 GMT
Hong Kong - More than half of Hong Kong residents believe the city's newspapers and television news channels practice self-censorship to avoid upsetting Beijing, according to a survey Wednesday.
Only 30 per cent of respondents in the survey said they believed the media reported news responsibly.
'Most people think the media has given full play to press freedom, but at the same time misused or abused press freedom,' surveyors from the University of Hong Kong said.
It said interviewees believed the media practiced self-censorship 'because of their hesitation to criticize the central (Beijing) government,' rather than the Hong Kong government.
Hong Kong reverted to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 under a 'one country, two systems' arrangement, allowing it a free press and freedom of expression denied to people in the rest of China.
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