David Bandurski and Martin Hala
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622091733
- eISBN:
- 9789882207066
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622091733.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
Despite persistent pressure from state censors and other tools of political control, investigative journalism has flourished in China over the last decade. This volume looks at investigative ...
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Despite persistent pressure from state censors and other tools of political control, investigative journalism has flourished in China over the last decade. This volume looks at investigative journalism in China, including insider accounts from reporters behind some of China's top stories in recent years, and giving readers a sense of how journalism is practiced in China. While many outsiders hold on to the stereotype of Chinese journalists as docile, subservient Party hacks, a number of brave Chinese reporters have exposed corruption and official misconduct with striking ingenuity and often at considerable personal sacrifice. Subjects have included officials pilfering state funds, directors of public charities pocketing private donations, businesses fleecing unsuspecting consumers—even the misdeeds of journalists themselves. These case studies address critical issues of commercialization of the media, the development of ethical journalism practices, the rising specter of “news blackmail,” negotiating China's mystifying bureaucracy, the dangers of libel suits, and how political pressures impact different stories. During fellowships at the Journalism & Media Studies Centre of the University of Hong Kong, these narratives and other background materials were fact-checked and edited by JMSC staff to address critical issues related to the media transitions currently under way in the PRC.Less
Despite persistent pressure from state censors and other tools of political control, investigative journalism has flourished in China over the last decade. This volume looks at investigative journalism in China, including insider accounts from reporters behind some of China's top stories in recent years, and giving readers a sense of how journalism is practiced in China. While many outsiders hold on to the stereotype of Chinese journalists as docile, subservient Party hacks, a number of brave Chinese reporters have exposed corruption and official misconduct with striking ingenuity and often at considerable personal sacrifice. Subjects have included officials pilfering state funds, directors of public charities pocketing private donations, businesses fleecing unsuspecting consumers—even the misdeeds of journalists themselves. These case studies address critical issues of commercialization of the media, the development of ethical journalism practices, the rising specter of “news blackmail,” negotiating China's mystifying bureaucracy, the dangers of libel suits, and how political pressures impact different stories. During fellowships at the Journalism & Media Studies Centre of the University of Hong Kong, these narratives and other background materials were fact-checked and edited by JMSC staff to address critical issues related to the media transitions currently under way in the PRC.
Nicholas Freeman
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748640560
- eISBN:
- 9780748651399
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748640560.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
Oscar Wilde's disastrous libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry dominated British newspapers during the spring of 1895. This book shows that the Wilde scandal was just one of many events to ...
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Oscar Wilde's disastrous libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry dominated British newspapers during the spring of 1895. This book shows that the Wilde scandal was just one of many events to capture the public's imagination that year. Had Jack the Ripper returned? Did the Prime Minister have a dreadful secret? Were Aubrey Beardsley's drawings corrupting the nation? Were overpaid foreign players ruining English football? Could cricket save a nation from moral ruin? Freak weather, flu, a General Election, industrial unrest, New Women, fraud, accidents, anarchists, balloons and bicycles all stirred up interest and alarm. The book shows how this turbulent year is at the same time far removed from our own day and strangely familiar. It interweaves literature, politics and historical biography with topics such as crime, the weather, sport, visual art and journalism to give an overarching view of everyday life in 1895. The book draws on diverse primary sources, from the Aberdeen Weekly Journal to the Women's Signal Budget, and from the Illustrated Police News to The Yellow Book; and is illustrated with stills from plays and reproductions of newspaper front pages, to bring Victorian culture to life.Less
Oscar Wilde's disastrous libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry dominated British newspapers during the spring of 1895. This book shows that the Wilde scandal was just one of many events to capture the public's imagination that year. Had Jack the Ripper returned? Did the Prime Minister have a dreadful secret? Were Aubrey Beardsley's drawings corrupting the nation? Were overpaid foreign players ruining English football? Could cricket save a nation from moral ruin? Freak weather, flu, a General Election, industrial unrest, New Women, fraud, accidents, anarchists, balloons and bicycles all stirred up interest and alarm. The book shows how this turbulent year is at the same time far removed from our own day and strangely familiar. It interweaves literature, politics and historical biography with topics such as crime, the weather, sport, visual art and journalism to give an overarching view of everyday life in 1895. The book draws on diverse primary sources, from the Aberdeen Weekly Journal to the Women's Signal Budget, and from the Illustrated Police News to The Yellow Book; and is illustrated with stills from plays and reproductions of newspaper front pages, to bring Victorian culture to life.
Michèle Mendelssohn
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748623853
- eISBN:
- 9780748651634
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748623853.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
In the spring of 1895, Oscar Wilde was at the epicentre of the most famous lawsuit in homosexual history. The sequence of three trials had begun in early April with Wilde's libel suit against the ...
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In the spring of 1895, Oscar Wilde was at the epicentre of the most famous lawsuit in homosexual history. The sequence of three trials had begun in early April with Wilde's libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry, who had accused him of being a ‘posing Somdomite [sic]’. By the end of April, the tables had turned and Wilde was being sued by Queensberry. Unable to pay his debts, Wilde declared bankruptcy and the entire contents of his home were auctioned. This chapter concentrates on the social rupture caused by Wilde's trial. It argues that the events of 1895 ripped apart the fabric of aesthetic social culture and that this is manifest in contemporary interior decoration as well as in The Spoils of Poynton. The novel not only reflects Henry James's uneasiness about the Wilde trials and their implications but, more compellingly, his sense that the aesthetics of interior decoration embodied in the notion of the ‘House Beautiful’ was richly expressive of (and thoroughly caught up in) the crisis of sexual ideology that emerged from the trials.Less
In the spring of 1895, Oscar Wilde was at the epicentre of the most famous lawsuit in homosexual history. The sequence of three trials had begun in early April with Wilde's libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry, who had accused him of being a ‘posing Somdomite [sic]’. By the end of April, the tables had turned and Wilde was being sued by Queensberry. Unable to pay his debts, Wilde declared bankruptcy and the entire contents of his home were auctioned. This chapter concentrates on the social rupture caused by Wilde's trial. It argues that the events of 1895 ripped apart the fabric of aesthetic social culture and that this is manifest in contemporary interior decoration as well as in The Spoils of Poynton. The novel not only reflects Henry James's uneasiness about the Wilde trials and their implications but, more compellingly, his sense that the aesthetics of interior decoration embodied in the notion of the ‘House Beautiful’ was richly expressive of (and thoroughly caught up in) the crisis of sexual ideology that emerged from the trials.
Avi Shilon
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300162356
- eISBN:
- 9780300189032
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300162356.003.0021
- Subject:
- History, Political History
Menachem Begin had never liked Ariel Sharon, whom he saw as an uninhibited manipulator. Begin claimed that Sharon joined the Liberal Party because Sharon was afraid of him. In 1984, Sharon filed a ...
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Menachem Begin had never liked Ariel Sharon, whom he saw as an uninhibited manipulator. Begin claimed that Sharon joined the Liberal Party because Sharon was afraid of him. In 1984, Sharon filed a libel suit in a New York court against Time magazine, which had claimed that he had spoken with members of the Gemayel family about avenging Bachir Gemayel's death. Although the court ruled that the information published by Time was incorrect, and that the publication amounted to negligence, there was no malice on the part of the magazine. In early August 1987 Sharon told Begin that he would be giving a comprehensive lecture at Tel Aviv University in Israel. In 1990, Begin underwent surgery at Shaarey Tzedek Medical Center after suffering a broken hip when he fell in his apartment. In March 1991, he was released from the hospital. In March 1992, the Likud held a contentious meeting at its headquarters in Tel Aviv to prepare a list of candidates for the Knesset elections. On March 9, Begin died at the age of seventy-nine.Less
Menachem Begin had never liked Ariel Sharon, whom he saw as an uninhibited manipulator. Begin claimed that Sharon joined the Liberal Party because Sharon was afraid of him. In 1984, Sharon filed a libel suit in a New York court against Time magazine, which had claimed that he had spoken with members of the Gemayel family about avenging Bachir Gemayel's death. Although the court ruled that the information published by Time was incorrect, and that the publication amounted to negligence, there was no malice on the part of the magazine. In early August 1987 Sharon told Begin that he would be giving a comprehensive lecture at Tel Aviv University in Israel. In 1990, Begin underwent surgery at Shaarey Tzedek Medical Center after suffering a broken hip when he fell in his apartment. In March 1991, he was released from the hospital. In March 1992, the Likud held a contentious meeting at its headquarters in Tel Aviv to prepare a list of candidates for the Knesset elections. On March 9, Begin died at the age of seventy-nine.
