China to require journalists to pass Marxist test

In the US, journalists are Marxist by choice.

“Journalists wishing for more detail for the exam can buy a 700-page textbook compiled by the government’s propaganda office and offered for sale in bookstores across China.

“The exam is another clear sign of Xi Jinping’s desire to bring the media to heel. Under Xi’s administration Beijing has increasingly tightened controls on social media and the press.

“In October, the political commissar of China’s National Defense University declared that ‘the internet has become the main battlefield in the fight for public opinion,’ and that ‘journalism and propaganda have greater responsibility’ to help the government in that ideological fight.”

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/china/131220/china-will-require-its-250000-journalists-pass-marxi

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