Those who have the patience to read this material will begin to see the major concerns of the Chinese leadership. But this visible and horrible event is not all that is in the press. Last year it was the demobilization of troops, the divestiture of the military of business concerns, the flooding, redundancies and social insurance, and the streamlining of industry. Inspirational lectures, what the Chinese call propaganda, are the norm. Secondly, the Chinese media is a vehicle for conveying facts.
Facts are funny things.
I was defeated. Such a conundrum is the stuff of facts. This question puzzles me. It seems to arise out of the presumption that the Chinese reading population either do not read the press or subscribe to newspapers only because they want to be lectured. And in China, as elsewhere, one person's fact becomes another's gossip.