外国观察者总喜欢将《冰点》事件与最近对中国大众传媒的其它镇压事件联系起来，并得出结论，说在目前的官僚管制下，中国新闻自由无任何希望可言。
Foreign observers are prone to associate the Bing Dian incident with other recent crackdowns on China’s mass media, and to conclude that Chinese journalism freedom is hopeless under the present autocratic regulation.