How lucky we are to have a free press! China's press watchdog has
banned journalists from their traditional means of making a decent
living: accepting cash kickbacks for writing positive reports, and
extorting protection money in return for making bad news disappear. It
has long been an open secret that corruption is rife within China's
press.

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