Jack Ma and Alibaba’s media power touches nerve in Beijing

//  “The government considers itself as the only authority to exercise monopoly over people’s attention. It despises any attempt to compete with it for attention,” said Fang Kecheng, an assistant professor of journalism at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Beijing’s message is clear, Fang said: “It should be up to the government to decide what people should pay attention to — not the private corporations.” //