
Taming News of a Border Tragedy
The catastrophe that struck the China-Nepal border last month is a case study in information control — and the clearest sign yet that Xi Jinping has rewritten the script for domestic media.

The Propaganda Office of the Jinan Committee of the CCP is the primary propaganda and media control organ at the city level in Jinan, overseeing ideological work, media supervision, and public communications. The department oversees all local broadcast, internet and print media, including the local CCP committee’s mouthpiece newspaper, Jinan Daily (濟南日報).
