http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/12/31/studying-marxist-journalism/ Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes - Marcus Valerius Martialis Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:27:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/12/31/studying-marxist-journalism/comment-page-1/#comment-73198 Bleepless Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:34:50 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/12/31/studying-marxist-journalism/#comment-73198 A Chinese friend of mine, who studied journalism at a prestigious PRC university, says that journalism students were required to take a closed, secret seminar. Since it is to the regime's advantage that journlists understand some of what is going on, the seminar was devoted to how to decode the press. Western Sovietologists and Beijingologists have been doing this for decades. Perhaps the Chinese Communist Party could hire Pipes to instruct the budding young liars. A Chinese friend of mine, who studied journalism at a prestigious PRC university, says that journalism students were required to take a closed, secret seminar. Since it is to the regime’s advantage that journlists understand some of what is going on, the seminar was devoted to how to decode the press.
Western Sovietologists and Beijingologists have been doing this for decades. Perhaps the Chinese Communist Party could hire Pipes to instruct the budding young liars.

]]> http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/12/31/studying-marxist-journalism/comment-page-1/#comment-73184 martian Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:05:39 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/12/31/studying-marxist-journalism/#comment-73184 Change a few words and you could be describing the "Dan Rather School of Journalism". Change a few words and you could be describing the “Dan Rather School of Journalism”.

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