China's $10B/year PR ministry mired in political fight with anti-corruption/loyalty enforcers
by Cory Doctorow from on (#1JH68)
China's Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (in English, "Publicity Department") spends $10B/year -- only part of its budget -- getting the official Chinese party line into foreign news outlets, with the rest of its activity directed internally, at government communications discipline and media censorship. (more")