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Kill One to Warn One Hundred: The Politics of Press Censorship in Vietnam
In: The international journal of press, politics, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 85-107
ISSN: 1940-1620
Recent literature on 'soft authoritarianism' has called into question the extent to which policy, rather than personality and patronage, sets the direction of elite politics in the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV). This strand of thinking argues that the state's direction toward 'reform' is not as coherent as commonly believed, a relevant model for examining the role of the state-owned print and online press as an arm of Vietnam's post-communist marketization project. It argues that Party leaders, facing a breakdown of consensus across the spectrum of political and business elites, are using the press in an attempt to manage a growing number of voices in the political system, but that reporting on many political and corruption scandals has simply become unmanageable for state leaders. Under this paradigm, policy debates between 'reformers' and 'conservatives' in Vietnam fall short of explaining press censorship. This semidemocratic concept of the media's role opens up room for a wider understanding of civil society under transitional regimes in Asia. This paper draws on twenty-nine interviews with Vietnamese journalists, editors, media executives, Vietnamese and foreign journalism trainers, and government officials from 2010 to 2011, as well as an analysis of press coverage and internal newsroom documents. [Reprinted by permission; copyright Sage Publications Inc.]
Kill One to Warn One Hundred: The Politics of Press Censorship in Vietnam
In: The international journal of press, politics, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 85-107
ISSN: 1940-1620
Recent literature on "soft authoritarianism" has called into question the extent to which policy, rather than personality and patronage, sets the direction of elite politics in the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV). This strand of thinking argues that the state's direction toward "reform" is not as coherent as commonly believed, a relevant model for examining the role of the state-owned print and online press as an arm of Vietnam's post-communist marketization project. It argues that Party leaders, facing a breakdown of consensus across the spectrum of political and business elites, are using the press in an attempt to manage a growing number of voices in the political system, but that reporting on many political and corruption scandals has simply become unmanageable for state leaders. Under this paradigm, policy debates between "reformers" and "conservatives" in Vietnam fall short of explaining press censorship. This semidemocratic concept of the media's role opens up room for a wider understanding of civil society under transitional regimes in Asia. This paper draws on twenty-nine interviews with Vietnamese journalists, editors, media executives, Vietnamese and foreign journalism trainers, and government officials from 2010 to 2011, as well as an analysis of press coverage and internal newsroom documents.
Prising open free speech in the 'pearl of Asia'
In: Index on censorship, Band 42, Heft 2, S. 114-117
ISSN: 1746-6067
Changing Worlds: Vietnam's Transition from Cold War to Globalization
In: Asian affairs, Band 44, Heft 1, S. 150-151
ISSN: 1477-1500
Black April: The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-75 & Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta
In: Asian affairs, Band 43, Heft 3, S. 516-519
ISSN: 1477-1500
How Can an Information Campaign Win Support for Peacekeeping?
In: Journal of international peacekeeping, Band 16, Heft 1-2, S. 175-197
ISSN: 1875-4112
How Can an Information Campaign Win Support for Peacekeeping?
In: International peacekeeping, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 175-198
ISSN: 1380-748X