Mediagazer: Why China ejected Melissa Chan (Sambuddha Mitra Mustafi/CJR)

2:20 PM ET, May 20, 2012

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Sambuddha Mitra Mustafi / CJR:

Why China ejected Melissa Chan — Is this the kind of reporting that got Al Jazeera correspondent Melissa Chan expelled from China last week? The foreign ministry did not give an official reason for the first expulsion of a journalist in 15 years, except to say that “the media concerned know in their heart what they did wrong.”

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