Journalists are urged to tow party line -- AFP Beijing

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Agence France-Presse

Published: October 25, 2006

Chinese leaders have hauled in 450 of the nation's media chiefs to order them to more closely toe the government line and increase their allegiance to the Communist Party, state press said Wednesday.

President Hu Jintao and other party leaders, including the propaganda chief, Li Changchun, met with the media figures at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday, The People's Daily reported.

The media "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.



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[Atman]

1. Did they do live on the radio from a big tent on the capitol lawn?

;)

[Judi Lynn]

2. Surely appreciate your illustration & additional reading, whirlygigspin!

Really makes you proud as punch, doesn't it? It's just heaven knowing we've got a pResident who's just as totalitarian as the Chinese leaders.

If anything, we all need even MORE propaganda, as much as possible. I don't feel it's our place to know the truth! It would just confuse us. We are but common folk.

[wholetruth00]

3. Copy cats! Bush must be proud that he hasset this example.

[Demeter]

4. It's TOE The Line!!

As in foot races....

[RebelOne]

5. You beat me to it. n/t

[Fierce]

6. I opened this threat specifically to say that.

One of my big ones.