MM - 4133 Jonah Rathburn

     I think it goes without saying that as far as journalistic freedom goes, North Korea is at the bottom of the list. No, literally the bottom of the list. Reporters Without Borders ranks North Korea as the least free out of 180 countries in regards to it's freedom of press. It's listed as a black zone which is the absolute worst on the color scale they use. To be fair essentially all freedoms are limited in North Korea. You can't even travel around the country much less leave without to live elsewhere without government approval, which won't happen. If you try to escape you'll be seen as a defector and dealt with as such. Their internet is essentially none existent. They have a closed intranet network that's strictly controlled by the government, it's name in Korean means Bright Light but the only thing it shines lights on is the brainwashing that's done by the government there. The only information freely available is that provided by the Go...

  It's interesting to think about the fact that their are English speaking radio stations in other countries. Up until this point I've never actually pondered it that much being someone who's never left the United Sates. Evidently it isn't uncommon given how many English speakers there are in the world. One such example is China Plus . This is an option for those in China who speak English or are trying to become more familiar with the language. This Radio station is a little different from what you might think in the sense that it doesn't actually play that much music.   This is more of a news broadcast via radio. As shown in the picture above they do hourly news run throughs in English. They even have a section in which you can learn to speak some functional Chinese. The biggest sections I saw on the website for this radio station were the podcast section and the written news stories. In a way the online format is much more like a news site than an average radio ...

    China Daily is an English-language  news outlet ran by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party. I recently took a look at their content as part of another project for this course so the site was fresh on my mind. I figured since most of the articles appear to be written by people fluent in English that it would be easier to examine than something that relies heavily on translation. This removes a barrier that sometimes comes with that territory. Upon my last inspection I found the English of this site to be impeccable.   At first glance the Chinese (local) news section headlines read about like any other countries. I saw some about various trends like martial art and egg painting. One thing I noticed that reminded me of U.S. news was a story about an elderly blogger/influencer and his "flair" . Another story reminiscent of here told of Universities opening back up to welcome students in these strange mask filled times. Strange...