Posted on 12/19/2013 2:24:05 AM PST by lbryce
Chinese journalists will have to pass a new ideology exam early next year to keep their press cards, in what reporters say is another example of the ruling Communist party's increasing control over the media under President Xi Jinping.
It is the first time reporters have been required to take such a test en masse, state media have said. The exam will be based on a 700-page manual peppered with directives such as "it is absolutely not permitted for published reports to feature any comments that go against the party line", and "the relationship between the party and the news media is one of leader and the led".
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Wikpedia:Hitler Oath
The term Hitler oath refers to the oaths of allegiance, or Reichswehreid, sworn by German Wehrmacht officers and soldiers as well as civil servants during the Third Reich between the years 1934 and 1945. The oath pledged personal loyalty to the person of Adolf Hitler in place of loyalty to the constitution.
Contents The death of 87-year-old President Paul von Hindenburg on August 2, 1934 removed the final obstacle to Adolf Hitler obtaining absolute power over Germany. Even with the passage of the Enabling Act and the banning of all political parties apart from the Nazi Party, Hindenburg still had the right to remove Hitler as Chancellor, and was hence the only check on Hitler's power.
On the day before Hindenburg's death, Hitler's cabinet had enacted a law combining the offices of Chancellor (the head of government) and President (the head of state); Adolf Hitler would henceforth be known as Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Chancellor) and was both head of state and commander in chief of the armed forces. The day of the President's death, the cabinet ordered a plebiscite for August 19 for the German people to approve the combination of the two offices.
Although the popular view is that Hitler drafted the oath himself and imposed it on the military, in truth it oath was the initiative of Defence Minister General Werner von Blomberg and General Walther von Reichenau, the chief of the Ministerial Office. Indeed, Hitler was surprised by the oath. Before Hitler took office, the military swore the Reichswehreid to the German constitution and president. The intention of Blomberg and Reichenau in having the military swear an oath to Hitler was to create a personal special bond between him and the military, which was intended to tie Hitler more tightly towards the military and away from the NSDAP. Years later, Blomberg admitted that he did not think through the full implications of the oath at the time.
Germany's voters went to the polls and 89.9% voted their approval for Hitler to assume complete power over Germany. The following day, August 20, 1934, the cabinet decreed the "Law On The Allegiance of Civil Servants and Soldiers of the Armed Forces". (Gesetz über die Vereidigung der Beamten und der Soldaten der Wehrmacht), which superseded the original oaths. Prior to the decree, both members of the armed forces and civil servants had sworn loyalty to "the People and the Fatherland" (Volk und Vaterland); civil servants had additionally sworn to uphold the constitution and laws of Germany. The new law decreed that instead, both members of the armed forces and civil servants would swear an oath to Hitler personally.
Problem is that too many here support all this nonsense from Communist China...anyone supporting Free Trade with Communist China supports this.
Looks like I will never get media credentials in Communist China
We can send journalists over to China to Tutor them.
We can send journalists over to China to Tutor them.
Journalism school accomplishes the same net result, but uses less jet fuel.
“Looks like I will never get media credentials in Communist China”
A Democrat from California tried to introduce a congressional bill that would require licenses to be a reporter. I gather unlicensed reporting would be banned. (Think about those exposes concerning illegal late term abortions or covering up incest or Obamacare navigators coaching people to lie. The licensed press would never touch those. We’d be living in a world where the likes of Nancy Pelosi got to review every story before we saw it.)
Bring back jobs to America!
Just saying.
Stop buying “Made in China”.
Don’t feel bad, China; in America, too, journalists have to be proven “ideologically sound” if they want to work.
Same goes for anyone in the entertainment industry.
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