China orders journalists to retrain in communist theory
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2010/mar/11/press-freedom-journalism-education
China wants to crack down on press freedom and introduce a new training system that requires journalists to train in Marxist and communist theories of news.
Li Dongdong, deputy director of the General Administration of Press and
Publication, told the South China Morning Post that some mainland reporters were giving Chinese journalism a bad name because they were not properly trained.
Under communist theories of journalism, media should support the leadership rather than operate as a watchdog.
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