Chinese media silent on 40th anniversary of Cultural Revolution
By Verna Yu | Agence France Presse
China's state-controlled media have been silent over the 40th anniversary of the start of the tumultuous Cultural Revolution, still seen as a taboo subject that haunts the country.
All mainstream media -- newspapers, television and radio stations -- stayed mum on the subject as did popular websites, whose chatrooms are normally filled with lively discussions on topical issues.
Searches on Tuesday for "Cultural Revolution" under the news section on China's most popular search engine, Baidu, yielded no results while specific websites focused on the period were not accessible.
Apart from several regional or academic magazines with limited circulation that have published articles on the troubled decade during the past two months, there has been a virtual media black-out on the issue.
The Communist Party's propaganda department controls the nation's media, giving the authorities powerful leverage to decide what gets reported.
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