Posted on 12/19/2013 5:17:26 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
-- Exam to be based on 700-page manual that prohibits published reports from featuring comments that go against party line --
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".
Some reporters say the impact of the increased control in the past year has been chilling. "The tightening is very obvious in newspapers that have an impact on public opinion. These days there are lots of things they aren't allowed to report," a journalist at a current affairs magazine said.
China has also intensified efforts to curb the work of foreign news organisations. The New York Times Company and Bloomberg News have not been given new journalist visas for more than a year after they published stories about the wealth of relatives of the former premier Wen Jiabao and Xi .......
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Wouldn’t it be easier just to emulate the American Urnalists?
The irony is that the Chinese have to pretend to be good leftists in order to work. In the USA, they don’t have to pretend because they already are.
Exact same title.
Have a great day. Wishing you A Merry Christmans and a Happy New Year!
Sounds like the Obama administration.
Are they spying on them too?
I am really sorry.
I always search.
But I goofed.
“it is absolutely not permitted for published reports to feature any comments that go against the party line”
“the relationship between the party and the news media is one of leader and the led”.
Refreshingly honest about it, I’ll give you that.
I just backed up to see if I had searched. I did and there was nothing posted according to the search. And when I click on the link (now in real time) it shows my posting only.
In the not-too-distant past, all bureaucrats were required to take examinations which validated their knowledge of Confucian texts. Sound to me that China is reverting to the past - just using a different body of useless knowledge.
Its a dictatorship. They dont look to public opinion, their job is control it.
It's almost like they spam our websites with their bots or get some American Quisling to do it for them.
America is cool but China is better because we have Yaks and Patent infringements.
I have noticed this, A LOT!
Yes that's bad but the MSM employees, who are mere skid marks on Journalism's shorts, learned it from them! from aged 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus, psycho, Mao-loving spoiled brats.
But with a powerful and growing alternative to the MSM today it's like it used to be before network TV. Every city had a print medium representing different views. I remember those days.
If we lose that again then I personally would favor civil war. I don't want to see the day when "one hour a week on PBS is all the fairness conservative opinion needs" (referring to Buckley's "Firing Line").
'Global business tip.'
/johnny
Good you see you Johnny, I should have pinged you to that post too :)
We had a tussle with one while you were on your Sabbatical for a while.
He didn't practice good OPSEC though ;P
So is this the same test the RATagandists have to take?
No exam is needed. Look at the USA - there is no marxist exam for journalists - they all know the official marxist dogma.
Our journalists can tutor them.
If we had a real media. A thinking, caring, liberty loving media, they would be outraged about this and calling for their brothers in the Chinese media to be free! Alas, we don’t, and this will eventually happen to our “progressive” journalists and journOlists.
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