Chinese media chiefs ordered to toe the line - Verna Yu
From AFP:
China’s leaders have hauled in 450 of the nation’s media chiefs to order them to more closely toe the government line and step up their allegiance to the Communist Party, state press said on Wednesday.
Chinese President Hu Jintao and other party leaders, including propaganda czar Li Changchun, met with the media chiefs at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday to reinforce the message, the People’s Daily reported.
“Under the embrace and leadership of the party, the news battlefront… should closely encircle the overall work of the party and state,” the paper quoted Li as telling the members of the All China Journalists Association. [Full Text]
