News is what "is supposed" to be news..?!
Reported by Reuters today:
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao on Monday launched a campaign to rid the country's sprawling Internet of "unhealthy" content and make it a springboard for Communist Party doctrine, state television reported... The power I believe in is the power of arguments. "Good night and good luck"
With Hu presiding, the Communist Party Politburo -- its 24-member inner council -- discussed cleaning up the Internet, state television reported. The meeting promised to place the often unruly medium more firmly under propaganda controls.
"Development and administration of Internet culture must stick to the direction of socialist advanced culture, adhere to correct propaganda guidance," said a summary of the meeting read on the news broadcast.
"Internet cultural units must conscientiously take on the responsibility of encouraging development of a system of core socialist values." Read more
media, china, politics
Labels: Media China Exoweb
2 Comments:
Come on, Dom - you know that China is extremely tight with controlling its news coverage and reporting (and the overall dissemination of information).
This shouldn't have come as a surprise to you.
No "news", but a thing to always keep in mind. Plus, I'm fascinated by the fact that the more donquixotesque the fight against the web, web2.0 and its consequences gets the louder they bark..
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