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China-Japan-Koreas
China orders journalists to retrain in communist theory
2010-03-12
China wants to crack down on press freedom and introduce a new training system that requires journalists to train in Marxist and communist theories of news.
"It's 'running dog lackies'? I always thought it was 'running lackie dogs'!"
"Wang, shoot him!"
Li Dongdong, deputy director of the General Administration of Press and Publication, told the South China Morning Post that some mainland reporters were giving Chinese journalism a bad name because they were not properly trained. Under communist theories of journalism, media should support the leadership rather than operate as a watchdog.
"Woof! Woof! Arf! Bark!"
[BEAT! BEAT! BEAT!]
"Yipe! Yipe! Yipe!... [LICK! LICK! LICK!]"
"Good boys!"
The initiative seems to be aimed at mainland journalists only.
Hong Kong journalists get to watch.
Chinese officials already routinely censor journalists, but Chinese media has become less restricted in recent years as they have gained more revenue from independent sources via advertising.
Posted by:Fred

#5  I wonder what the hell is left of Marxism and communism in China. They've revised it so many times since Mao that it is probably unrecognizable to the Marxism and communism taught in American journalism schools.

"Nielsen Ratings says, 'Those with high ratings during prime time, with best demographic age and gender groups, will prosper under heaven, and be smiled upon by the advertiser gods.' "
Posted by: Anonymoose   2010-03-12 13:51  

#4  Why do they have to go to the trouble to set up a brand new system to train their journalists in this? The school they want already exists.

They can just send their reporters to Columbia Journalism School. They've been teaching "Marxist and communist theories of news" as the highest form of the art since the '60s.
Posted by: Cravitle McGurque3255   2010-03-12 05:39  

#3  ..new training system that requires journalists to train in Marxist and communist theories of news.

Guess speaker including Chris Matthews?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2010-03-12 00:57  

#2  Fred's in-line commentary FTW
Posted by: badanov   2010-03-12 00:53  

#1  Under communist theories of journalism, media should support the leadership rather than operate as a watchdog.

Funny, that describes the New York Times ever since Obama got into office.
Posted by: gromky   2010-03-12 00:29  

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