I’ve said it before, but nothing makes the CCP look more like a bunch of insecure moonbats than their fixation on “guiding public opinion” (read: censorship and propaganda). The 2009 SCIO Internet News Work training session recently wrapped up in Beijing, and over the next few days China Digital Times is publishing translated notes from the meeting.
I strongly encourage readers to check out the full posts on CDT, but I couldn’t resist commenting on two sections.
The first comes from Li Wufeng, Bureau Chief of the State Council Information Office Internet Affairs Bureau. In Mr. Li’s opening lecture he criticized “Small newspapers and websites republish each others’ stories, creating media hype. For example, the Deng Yujiao incident and the Hangzhou street race case.” For those of you not following “small newspapers” in China, Deng Yujiao was a woman arrested after defending herself from being raped by a local official (the official died) and the latter case involved a young man in Hangzhou who attempted to use his family’s money and influence to protect him after he killed a pedestrian while drag racing his Nouveaurichemobile.
Yes…how truly horrible, if newspapers spend all of their time exposing corruption, how will they