New York Times, August 16, 2007
By Keith Bradsher

China's government said Wednesday that it was cracking down on "false news reports, unauthorized publications and bogus journalists."

Beijing officials periodically try to discourage the country's news media from being too aggressive. The latest initiative comes two months before a politically delicate occasion: the Chinese Communist Party Congress, held every five years.

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