Chinese TV Censors Part of Address by Obama

This article tells of how President Obama's inaugural speech was censored when it aired by the CCTV. The speech was censored to remove the word communism. The article also mentioned that the next day in printed transcripts the word communism was once again removed.

This article gives a very present example of how the state censors what it wants (or does not want) its people to hear or read. I found it interesting to find such a current example that came with similar discussion about censored information in class.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/world/asia/22china.html?ref=asia