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In China, Media Make Small Strides

From the Washington Post: This fall, a scholarly magazine that focuses on Communist Party history pushed the envelope again. Editors, emboldened a few years ago after writing about a rarely mentioned former top official the party had purged, published a cover story about a former party chief banned from mention in state-controlled media because of his support for students during the 1989 Tiananmen