{"id":162173,"date":"2013-08-27T17:39:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T00:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=162173"},"modified":"2013-08-27T17:39:34","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T00:39:34","slug":"chinas-press-corps-ordered-study-marxism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/08\/chinas-press-corps-ordered-study-marxism\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Press Corps Ordered to Study Marxism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South China Morning Post reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china-insider\/article\/1299795\/china-orders-nations-journalists-take-marxism-classes\"><strong>all members of China&#8217;s press corps will soon be required to attend classes on Marxism<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>China has ordered its entire press corps back to school in an effort to shore up ideological unity. The nation\u2019s 307,000 reporters, producers and editors will soon have to sit through at least two days of Marxism classes, the Communist Party\u2019s Propaganda Department has announced along with the press association and the state press regulator.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]Marxism classes are scheduled to begin this month in main provincial publications and then spread to minor publications. Until next February, central government monitors\u2019 will inspect the programme\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists have reacted with muted apathy to the announcement made by Xinhua on Tuesday. \u201cI\u2019ve studied Marxism for so many years, the more I study it, the less I understand it,\u201d was a Beijing-based journalist\u2019s reaction. \u201cSpeechless,\u201d Lv Minghe, an investigative reporter with Southern Weekly commented in a Sina Weibo post. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china-insider\/article\/1299795\/china-orders-nations-journalists-take-marxism-classes\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This new demand comes just after an<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/08\/ccp-edict-warns-of-seven-perils\/\"> internal document discouraging subversion within the Party<\/a>\u00a0spread online, and as the Xi administration is going to great lengths to <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/08\/journalists-lawyers-targeted-as-xi-tightens-control\/\">crackdown on journalists, civil society members, and their legal representatives<\/a>. Also see &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/08\/xi-embraces-mao-as-he-tightens-grip-on-country\/\">Xi Embraces Mao as He Tightens Grip on Country<\/a>,&#8221;\u00a0via CDT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South China Morning Post reports that all members of China&#8217;s press corps will soon be required to attend classes on Marxism: China has ordered its entire press corps back to school in an effort to shore up ideological unity. 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