China's media told to downplay 'party' ties to Shanghai scandal

Posted on October 11, 2006 4:48 PM | | Comments (0)

Special to WORLDTRIBUNE.COM
October 10, 2006

China’s Communist Party has ordered media outlets to tone down reporting on the financial scandal that led to the dismissal of Shanghai Communist Party leader Chen Liangyu.

The scandal is expected to implicate other senior Communist Party officials, including possibly even members of the eight-member ruling Standing Committee of the Politburo, the collective dictatorship that controls the government and military.

The Central Propaganda Department instructed Mainland media to take a low profile in reporting the case. In a memo, the department prohibited media from discussing “the party line and party connection” in covering the case.

Only news of the scandal released by the official news agency Xinhua should be published.

"No unauthorized or sensational reports shall be allowed. All speculative and exaggerative reports on Chen should stop," noted the nine-point circular from the Central Propaganda Department.

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