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New York, August 20, 2001—Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji and other officials have said publicly that Chinese journalists should act as watchdogs over society. In reality, journalists are regularly harassed or threatened and sometimes sent to prison for doing just that. A briefing released today by the Committee to Protect Journalists exposes the subtle, and not-so-subtle,…https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2001/10/colophon.gif