Posted on 10/21/2013 1:41:11 AM PDT by TexGrill
BEIJING - China's Communist Party has begun ordering all Chinese journalists not to be supportive of Japan when writing about territorial and historical issues between the two countries, participants of an ongoing mandatory training program said Saturday.
About 250,000 journalists who work for Chinese media organizations need to attend the nationwide training program to learn about such topics as the Marxist view on journalism, laws and regulations and norms in news gathering and editing.
The unified program started in mid-October and will run through the end of this year.
In addition to Japan, instructors of the program taught them that the United States is "trying to undermine our country" and criticized the Philippines and Vietnam, which have territorial disputes with China, the participants said.
They were also told to reject the ideas of democracy and human rights, saying that these values claimed by "the West as universal are targeting China's Communist Party."
But a group of instructors organized by the party praised Russian President Vladimir Putin, as the Chinese leadership has been trying to promote images of its close relations with him, according to the participants.
After taking the training program, Chinese journalists are required to pass an exam, expected to take place between January and February, to obtain press cards.
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So the Chinese are following the US blueprint on journalism?
Sort of like our “journalist” are forbidden to write any positive story on those that oppose man made global warming, or pro life, or on those that are to the right of Obama, or....
I never ever want to hear again how the United States has a free press, we don’t. At least the Chinese are not pretending they are.
More proof that...if you still support Free Trade with Communist China...you are a Communist
Start by showing them newsreel footage of the 1937 Rape of Nanking by the Japanese. Bombers, terrorized civilians, the whole bit. Then show them Jap propaganda footage of the same attack.
That’ll put them in the mood.
As a matter of fact they already show that footage frequently on TV in China.
all american journalists are taught not to write in favor of America.
Kinda figured that. Stirring up anti-Japanese feeling in PRC has got to awfully easy, starting with invasion of Manchuria in 1931 then mainland invasion in 1937, then world war until 1945. Atrocities without end during that time.
Now, as for the Paracels and Spratlys & other disputed atolls, the big question remains,
“Can the dragon swim?”
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