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JOURNALISM IN NEW CHINA

When the Chinese Com- munist Government. ph- nounced. on December 10,

By a

special correspondent

1949 that it had set up, completed a six-month Indoctrin-, become an effective propaganda, münista' victory: After all machinery for gathering and distributing news, foreign correspondents in Hong Kong perked up their ears.

ation course; Humble self.

SCENE: A noodle shop in Hsu chew, North Kiangsu, China.

TIME: June 26, 1040.

Lhas' chance.

Radio Tibet anys the country dossi't waat to be liberates, hardly think they would so no

Want- far as Dalal about it. Tibetan

ternational war; and the presence of ever-increasing numbers of Russian advisers, is certainly the logical outcome of the Cont

tool, the Pross must be completely | China needs foreign advice and controlled. There can be ng com- aid as badly, pa any, udar davel, promise. And this control, must | oped, country, and one can embrace nown gathering as well † hardly expect May The-tung to 'ani distributing." It.. must affect beg help from the U.S. State natives and foreignøts alike, for | Pepartment which invested hun by censoring nowk government | dreds of millions of dollars in also wields effective thought-con- | Chiang Kai-shek's ill-futad van="

When the Big Mo was Anally. trol pyar, foreign newspaper rend- ture of tracking down and killing | refloated, půvy mea "greeted the He says that it is nothing of ors. The presence of the foreign the Chinese Red, army. The vast Nevya witli haya.” that kind. His dialectics tell him reporter feopardises the success majority-of the 470 milllog Chios, Bounds like another fishes' that, by virtue of being human, of the system. One tries to pro- | cro" are openly enthusiastle over') eircle. I have no more chance of being | pagandise and restrain him, If the new regbie; not because they objective than I have of turning he resists, one sands, hten, hqme ; myself into a noodle-eating croso= | otherwise he may puncture the dite.

1 any that my reporting is on the average objectivel

balloon.

in any way subscribe to the It Moscow. in successful in Chinese Communist platform of inglating that. Mao reuse the Neo-Democracy but because for population of Chmuhy 100,000,- the first time since Dr, Sun Yat-000, I do hope they don't all come Ran overthrew the Manchu

Only 20 miles from the Chinese .border beyond which the number- one news story of our day' ls_un- folding itself, the correspondents live to rely on second-hand in- formation, propaganda and rum- All news contributions, to bours; and few, if any, of them can addressed to Editor-In-Chief, - plece together those often contra ~~Advertisemente and. Bualnem | distory fragments to completo the communications should be any of Mpo Tse-tung's China. dressed to the Company CHINA

Is the estobilahmonk of the MAIL LTD.

Chins Information Bureau which, according to the Peking radio, "will handle news concerning the Central People's Government and its subordinate organs for release to foreign newspaper men," a bamboo-curtain raiser, the corres Losk him how to go about it. Kowloon 1982 wanduits want to knyp Edghway that Lametembeaga Clinton interdum Topere to TE BEST

Marxism tha

DEATH

further extensión Sol"tha new?" blockade under which the Chinese manhood misunderstood and, perhaps, misunderstanding?

I say that I am sorry.

He tells me not to be sorry. The thing that really counts is to become. a......... useful member of

ociety.

absolute truth

Democratic viewpoint. Of course,

· before I became a convert to Chairman Muo's' Nen-Domecratio Leachings, but I'll have become a useful journalist. Usefulness is our raînim d'etre, says my friend,

I'll still be na subjective as I was

In the light of Britain's re- cognition of the Central People's Government in Poking, this que+- tion sesumes, particular impor- tance. For only correspondents of countries which have diploma- tle relations with Government are allowed, logandirt.

The agencies

led in 1911, China is again to Hong Kong.

Root and branch.

under one Central Govern- inent, with apparently no stand Only some of our largest news-party in a postion to effectively Now that the workers have challenge the newly won hold of been deported, couldn't we do can afford papers

to maintain the Chinese Coinmunists.

Unity the same with the management? their own correspondents. in

ppace mean Chins. At least 80 per cent of and

reconstruction

anct

nows

Australian puorigines. suddenly,

cour.try, Elizabeth Douglas, beloved wile of John S.

Dinnen. Communist movement grew to and write my news from a Neon! Presa origlapton, with one or, the rights are non-essentials, which month-long trak för iolates.

other of the four major

can wait until the more immediate Thaj's. nothing. People in Funeral service Kowloon

uncles.Reuter. United Press. problem of alling one's rice bowl Britain have been doing that for Union Church 3.30 p.m. to-

Asociated. Press,

Agence

has been, suived, the Chinese far-years, lay, to be followed by crema.

France Presse.

<mer argues," lion. No flowers by request.

The two must get theira, Acknowledging this fact, the Chinese Communist commentators have nothing to

.Since the Chinese Communists

According to Inilignant types in devote considerable space to the

hide, why do : Washlagtan, Britain is embarking they object in free news coverago of the Western' newr

ann. Commonwealth policy of subject

ait for one and won for all. European agencies with the casual

Brushing aside tha by foreign repurteis? agencies.

One of the reasons is their bo- Roped statement that, anyway, the Hef that the foreign corcospon United Prass

Associated dent, being a product of the Wes- Press "have gradually expanded ten bourgeold-capitalist society,

the markets

is incapable of reporting without by monopolising which originally belonged to the ulas on any society other than his news agencies of other Imperi-own. alist nations," the Chinese Coni- mulat writer, Liu Chu-chi, dafines the overseas functions of the UP and AP as follows:

MIDDLE OF THE

ROAD

The Chinese have always liked the middle of the road -a remark we trust motorists will not take too literally! To those who, urged him to keep to it, Mao Tse-tung, in his Party anniversary speech, retorted that there was no middle road. There was no alternative but to lean to one side-the Soviet side. The Chinese term im- plies something sharper in the way of inclination than the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa, whose refusal to fall makes it one of the wonders of the world.

news

Now that

the new

I ask him Indignontly whether he wants me to become a propa

He says why not?. Marxism is British founalists truth. A man who tells the truth hope to celebrate the Chinese New in a propagandist; he is af Year under the angls of the icicle-Relentist, taden winged roofs of the Forbid- den City, what will they have le cable hume from China? How may, we hope to know at what is happening behind the so-called Brunboo Curtain which Whitehall has just pierced fur the nisuries or Fleet Street and surroundinys?

"As

The journalist

다

of

living member society," we are told by one of the more crudite Peking dialec- viclang, the journalist actively participates in the class, struggle. Hence, he cannot afford to be

India, on the other hand. had a reputation for extre-objective."

Ho

mes, Yet Pandit Nehru insists. This argument is carried to its it is possible to keep to the ¦ logical conclusion by another middle of the road.. He thus learned commentator at Peking. "The journalist," he says, "must refuses to identify India with be indoctrinated and thoroughly either Soviet Western rid himself of the stale, old and ideological aims. He has been poisonous notions of the British criticised for this. on the and American Imperialist society. ground that neutrality in the precepts of Marx, Engels, Lenin, conflict between Communism Stalin and Mao The-tung it and non-Communism is un-is not until he has been thus in

doctrinated,

that the journalist realistic or isolationist. The

safeguard himself against point is reminiscent of the mistakes in his work, controversy about President Woodrow Wilson's famous

must study and accept the

I say lot's not discuss it. We're old friends, und this sort of talk gets us nowhere. There is a to be said for what Chairman Mac is doing in China, I have on open mind, and feel qualified to write China news,

He puts

down hir chopsticks and tells me that my mind is no more upen than. was China's door during the days of the American Imperiulist

Policy And, for the umpteenth time, I can't have an open mind, because if I had, I'd to a scien tile instrument in a laboratory drawer rather than a member of the species homo sapiens outing noodles in a Hsuchow noodle shop,

*

►

One tha Poking Government

inu

now announced that no wirings are attached to Poking's

Britain. 90 5000gnition, whatever it is that's been going

on.

•

*

1

or

“Ink drinker, in 'Sydney." Now, now, ba fair. I wouldn't realises that the ultimate buyer of the foreign correspondent's put their claret quite at that level. news is not the U.S. State Dovart-} }, 1.) To release news that

Kingsley king's Tonya? serves the interests of Americanment, nor soms hush-hush cloak-

and-dagger Intelligenca set up, i Down in Saigon they're saying Imperialism in their monopolised but the man-in-the-street, it will it's best

Но. guard markets,

!! usually colonial,throw wide open China's door to somi-coloniul,- and under the representatives of our Press. developed countrien,

a.) To report on local events according to the requirements of the American Imperialists for the US, and world Press.

"Japanese mayor hopes H-bomb never be used."

Even have moments when I. think an atomle war might not be entirely disarabie

Election emancipation.

wholesale in Britais. Shopkeepers Controls have gone overboard

can now

oranges and sropoftult without boneft of a They not government snooper. •

Much of the West's antagonism toward the new Chinese regimu in caused by withholding Ching new from the men who speak our people's, language, share, their 3.) To work hand in glove to report to the people on condi- preoccupations, are sent to China with Amoricon, diplomatie, mill-flons and events there. ary and commercial organisations to engage in espionage activities." Chinese Communiat Another writer offers a broader definition of what the UP qud AP are up to: 1.) To overthrow a wenk nation, or deprive that nation of its administrative powers.

"3.) To build up an anti- Soviet bloc

Cannot be trusted

Viewed from this angle, it seems, obvious that the foreign corres- ᎾᎢ

pondent connot be trusted. Ac- cordingly, the New China News

"). To pave the way for the Agency will do his news-gather-

for him, and should he feel expansion of American Imporia ing that he can improve on the grani- | lism, mar and syntax of these official releases, he is no doubt welcome to try himself at editing. Der criptiva writing is bound to be encouraged as long as it illus trates the subject matter sat inspiring sights as a model worker forth in the official releases. Stich grimly producing 73.03 per cent more safety pins than he should, will be warmly commended to the foreign correspondent who might, in this particular instance, even be advised to resort to the medi- ums of poetry.

speech during the first world war, before the United States was forced into the conflict.

Tho juxtaposition of the two leaders and their differ- ent responses makes any sort of cheering from the sidelines

+

This rather dinlectic approach is typical of the school of thought professed by the rulers of the new China. What it boils down to, however, is simply this:

DRAMATIS PERSONAE: An old Chinese friend who has just

would probably develop an

j

public

"4.) To bamboozle opinion in the United States and the less independent countries."

tho

Consequently," the only way to assess them (the correspondants of the United Press and Associa- ted Press) correctly, is to under- stand their function as feelors of manopolistic journalism, American Imperialists means of enslaving the world.. These *** groans correspondents long nga prepared ready-made stories about Red horror, famine, inside dissidence, and what not, ready to be published at any time, with only slight changes in thỏ wording."

But I want nowel the frustrated journalist.

*News?", asks his Chinese Communist guldo in amazement.

Why, this is news."

orities

Our reporters do not readily merely refuse it, but consider it lake to propaganda. an effrontry to be offered the stuff. Instead of swallowing Peking's propaganda, they have turned round and kléked.

"RN Dockyard management hit by union."

Some of those chaps have à marvellous alm, especially with half bricks.

This

carvo

U.N.

to plan If Peking is in the least in- Lorested in winning the under-likely to result in Irgun and the Jerusalem into three parts is standing and sympathy of the Stern Gang planning to carve any Western public, it should try new U.N.. delegates

into mora thon methods. Propaganda has failed thrco parts. The only alternative is to grant free access to the foreign-reporter to the masses and vastness that are Chinn, It may be worth try- Ing. Much may be gained and ittle lost.

It was Francis Bacon who sald It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yot been done can be done except by moans which have never yet been-

tried.".

(Copyright by the Author).

BRITISH ENVOY ON LEAVE

London, February, 1.. Sir David Kolly, the British Ambassader in Moscow, will leave for Landon on February.. on nounced tomat

YAMAZANMISA Nita Curtizan

Beauty vulture.

"Bullet; bounces face."

off 'woman's

But you don't really want to sock a hide like that

2

#6.5 81, Darmanently AuruEygand he's during power cuts."

MACAU

a trifle difficult.It is permissi--independent--policy-totally ble, however, to wonder how different from the small the attitudes of these two Slavic States conquered by dominant figures on the Asian the Communists in Eastern stage may react on cach Europe. other, and in turn on their This estimate, it was added,

It is perfectly: true, that, since own peoples.

provided the basis for India's

the war, the Chiina reporting: of The explanation Pandit decision to recognise the

If M. Dimitri Schostakovitch the Big Four news agencies "han, Nehru vouchsafes of his mid- | Peking Government. Much were to compose a "Class Struggle boon rather one-sided,” But since dle of the road policy denies the same reply was sent to Toccata," belicoss counter it is not the function, of a news it is isolationist. It is consir Delhi as to London. Mean- point turale between the strings agency to speculate on what inny and woodwinds, with the boom- be happening behind a news tent, so the argument runs, while, there has been a singu- ing cell finally triumphantly

leave, the Forolgn: Omico an- with the Canadian argument for enthusiasm on the part of emerging over the obscenely blus-cate, the fault lies, partly Au Communist

He will travel by land to tel Imposing innumers sinkl and yon from there to that neither national nor re- Peking Radio over the neces- toring bassoons, depicting the Vic- gional isolationism is a physi- sity for the liberation of tory of the, International

London, arriving on February 10. tariat our the Wall Street-domin-

correspondentective as a gatherer

rendering

him

-Reuter, cal possibility. Mr. Nehru ac- Tibet. That is not necessarily ated capitalist reactionaries-this virtually knowledges that the future of a clue to what Peking may opus, being the work of a univer of news. Much of the fault also now almost defunct South East Asia will be wish to talk about. It may be sally recognlaod gontus, could rests with the

justly be considered a piece of Chiang - Kalezicke Government powerfully influenced by de- that the agenda waita on functionel art.

which for over 20 years, carfully velopments both in India and events in Moscow, Chinese

Journalism in the now China is from entering; Communist Chinn foreign correspondents provented in China. But he refuses to be who like to look on the brigh-similarly pressed into the servien dagmatic as to the form this ter side of things suggest that for the cause, as is shown in the to challenge the atrocity, fales Influence will take until it "leaning" is merely a bar following pasanges from an article turned out by the Kuomintang

Journilem in the propaganda machinery. becomes clearer. how the now gaining posture. The context A Guide to

New China," which appeared in a India and the now China in which the arresting phrase Shanghai magazine in summer merge in the pattern of the was used hardly suggests it. 1040 changing world. It remains to On the other hand, it is a

1 "In his On Neo-Democracy be seen, he points out, how lukewarm, simile for a meet Chairman Mao Tse-tung writes: That these views are mure than much the traditional Chinese ing of Communist minds, and 'A national, solentia, popular sbstract, high faluting dialectica characteristics will maintain even a chilly one for a meet-culture is the people's anti-Ime has been borna out lay the experi- themselves within the frame- ing of enraptured hearts. perialist and anti-foudal culture, encas of the foreign correspon- work of the now revolutiona- But when the mists have the culture of the Noo-Demo dents who remained at their ports cracy Since journalism is | in China oven after "liberation." ry economy.

cleared a bit and non-Com- a part of our culture, our conclu-11dao esporters -gerivad – hera A clearer picture of how munist Ambassadors do go to slon is: A national, scienting, served and Orpstrated, sentiments events may shape themselves Peking, it may well be found popular Journalism is the people which are rellosted law their

anti-Impartalist and anti-feudal articles. in China, in future was sent that the only rival the Soviet journalism, — the journellem of

There is no indication that the have in the Neo-Democracy. from New Delhi a month ago|| Ambassador will

"necredited"

will fore by the New York Times" direct influence will be the

A journalism tháp le pro or anil our better, However, the divi- correspondent. It was said to Indian, Ambassador-especial- anything, is decidedly af variance Tion of the Chluase sub-continent have been based on an esti- fy, If, as expected, Mg, Panik- with the notion of fournalism into dive regional administrations. mate of the situation in China kar returns to China. Few accepted in the Western world, may result in fncreasing freedom made by Pandit Nehr during men are more remarkably unition. It becomes one of the Ands himself from, the seat of the and therefore assumes a novel do for the reporter the farther ke his visit to the United States. equipped for such a post. The many: ideological tools thrust up- Cenital

ment Another This depleted the Chinese first task of non-Communist an, the poople to mould their outscouraging Communist Party as being diplomacy is to asat. China look and bring it into line with

|

composed of three factions, to stand uprigh

A hostile policy by the West stand niher own fee

would leave Peking no option inde

but to follow the Kremlin

line, and would also enable po the Communists to find an all excuse for any failure to deal with the country's economic plight. It they were reco fed nña foreld=10k

got more help from

than from u

Abstract views

and to the views held by the ruling class. Chinese

China's the newspapers of the old, bp)

rdínál dayı, although awost-were-pol- sonous, whereas the newspapers

diaj: of today, although, kapid,

dd an benefleiri to the mass (CH€ least, they can relieve the people of thalk thirst for knowledge.

whether this, is treng [nallı vor: ruthilash, tho pern). But whatqruča the power of PE SOD kai Deen repeat duclog the past Invariably follo foreign reporter::

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