Untold Story: The Media in China and North Korea

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Communications - Media and Politics, Politic Communications, University of Minho (Social Sciences Institute), course: Communication Sciences, language: English, abstract: The main concern of this essay is to explain the general situation of the media in China andNorth Korea under the governmental control. I will try to talk about the brief media history inthese countries in order to lead up readers to come to understand the concept. I will explainhow the revolutions affected the media in China and North Korea afterwards. It would bewise to mention what the governments have been doing so as to control the media in theselands. I will exemplify my assertions through some striking instances from both countries.Eventually, I will mention the general case within the history and conclude it by givingmy own ideas about the media over there. I aim at the students who study in this area as wellas mere people pondering over the case in China and North Korea.