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Friday, July 27, 2007

The Cardboard Dumpling Deke

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China's propaganda ministry has taken to wielding the contrivance of the
self-inflicted refutable slander to precondition their public against
truthful allegations of embarrassing and intractable problems.

An explosion of negative news -- tainted food exports, slave labor at
brick kilns, political challenges and even supposed cardboard dumplings
-- has pained party censors and renewed demands for ideological and
political discipline among China's journalists.

"News publishing professionals must resolutely instill a Marxist concept
of news, maintain party principles, firmly uphold professional ethics
and voluntarily commit themselves to upholding the sacred mission and
glorious responsibility bestowed on them by the party and the people,"
said an order issued Monday by the party's main propaganda organizations.

The order was handed down in response to a high-impact Beijing
Television broadcast this month reporting that a fast-food restaurant
had mixed cardboard with pork in stuffing its steamed dumplings. The
report caused a sensation among Beijing residents, who cherish their
dumplings and who were already sensitized by weeks of reporting on food
safety concerns.

But authorities quickly branded the broadcast a hoax. The reporter,
identified as an inexperienced temp called Zi Beijia, was jailed, and
party propaganda officials scolded journalists loudly for lax ethics and
needlessly stirring up worries among the public.

In the minds of authorities and Chinese who follow the party line, the
scandal was a way to undermine weeks of other reporting on tainted food
and drugs, including numerous dispatches by foreign correspondents. In
their view, such reports were vastly overblown. ..

Chinese authorities have been particularly sensitive recently about how
the party is portrayed. In part, the concern has arisen from a desire to
radiate a good image for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. But more important,
officials have begun the countdown to a crucial party congress in the
fall during which Hu is expected to cement his leadership, establish his
ideological credentials and stack party organizations with his
supporters. Against that background, the rash of negative news has been
particularly unwelcome.

After a meeting of top Beijing propaganda officials, for instance, the
capital's newspaper editors and television news directors last week were
handed a list of newly off-limits subjects, Beijing journalists
reported. The list included food safety as well as riots, fires, deadly
auto accidents and bloody murder cases, they said.

The people who would believe the Party explanation that an
"inexperienced temp" could have had the wherewithal to unilaterally get
an inflammatory exposé onto Beijing Television are living examples of
the requisite gullibility of the masses necessary to the functioning of
a well-controlled society.

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