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Two outspoken newspapers "Beijing News" and
"Jinghua Times" originally affiliated with the Central
Propaganda Dept. of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
will be "downgraded" to Propaganda Department of Beijing.
An ex-official of Central Propaganda Department analyzed
that waves of anti-authoritarian activities in the world and
frequent domestic unrests contributed to the CCP's fear.
This is another round of its control over the media.

Zhang Kaichen, ex-official of the Propaganda Department
of Shenyang City, said "Beijing News" and "Jinghua Times"
will be subject to the control of
Beijing Propaganda Department.
The CCP authorities' action is out of fear that a revolution
similar to the "Arab Spring" will occur in China.
So, it tightens control over the media.

Zhang Kaichen: "The Arab Spring Revolutions that
broke out in Tunisia, Egypt, and especially in Libya, have
caused a particularly massive shock to the CCP authorities.

Now they are beset with numerous contradictions and
frequent domestic emergencies that are hard to ward off.
The CCP has committed a heinous crime during its
90-year history, it will not change.
So it will do nothing but aggravate overall suppression."

Founded in 2001, Beijing News is a comprehensive daily
newspaper, jointly owned by two newspaper groups of
Guangming Daily and Southern Metropolis Daily.
It is also the first media of cross-regional operation.
Jinghua Times is a city newspaper under People's Daily.

The news about two newspapers' downgrading was spread
online by microbloggers. The names of the two newspapers
were classified as "sensitive words" on microblogs and
cannot be searched.
Zhang: "Those newspapers like Guangming Daily or
People's Daily are of great impact
and journalists can have wide report scope.
In this way, the newspapers are hard to control.
What's more, when the journalists of Jinghua Times or
Beijing News do an interview saying that we are a
subsidiary of People's Daily or Guangming Daily.
The CCP's provincial committees, municipal committees
and local governments sometimes dare not resist."

Beijing News is one of China's newspapers adept at
playing hard ball with CCP's policies. Due to bluntness,
the newspaper has suffered repeated suppression.

Cheng Yizhong, the first Editor-in-Chief,
was dismissed and arrested by the authorities in 2004,
because of the Southern Metropolis Daily Event.

In 2005, the CCP authorities were unhappy with
Beijing News' reports and discharged the Editor-in-Chief
Yang Bin and two Deputy Editors-in-Chief.
The removal provoked 100 employees to strike and protest.
Jinghua Times' metropolitan work style often
touched the CCP's nerves, too.
Zhang believes that with the progress of the international
situation and exposure of the CCP's ugly nature
at home and abroad, Chinese people have
begun to wake up and so have the media.

Zhang Kaichen: "China's media outlets have been controlled
by the CCP autocratic authorities for over 60 years.
But now, a great majority of people and even
some media are awakening, expressing and resisting.
This is what the CCP is most afraid of, most worried about,
and also is what frustrates the CCP most.
Zhang Kaichen also commented that the CCP's inhumane
handling of incidents especially Wenzhou Train Crash
stirred many journalists' conscience.

They dared to go against the instructions from
the Central Propaganda Department to report the truth.
The actions have caused great strength of public opinion,
making the CCP very afraid.
The CCP's changing of two newspapers' jurisdiction is
to abate their influences, also warning other medias.
However, Zhang Kaichen said that all the actions that
the CCP have done are in vain.

NTD reporters Liu Hui and Wang Mingyu.

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