China says media blatantly insulting country must pay price

China on Thursday said that media organizations that blatantly insult China and spread racial discrimination must pay the price, after the country expelled three reporters of The Wall Street Journal a day earlier."Does freedom of speech entail publishing a racist, discriminatory and insulting article?" Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang asked at a regular press briefing, defending its decision to revoke the correspondents' press credentials after the U.S. newspaper published an op-ed China deemed racist and slanderous.The article, titled "China is the Real Sick Man of Asia" by Bard Coll…READ FULL ARTICLE