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A funny thing happened to me on the way to political re-education...

Imagethief was morbidly fascinated to find a Reuters article over the weekend that explains how the Chinese Propaganda Ministry has launched a point-based "demerit" system to try to encourage proper behavior from the print media:CHINA'S Communist Party... ...full story at Imagethief

from Imagethief on Sun, Feb 11 2007

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