On September 30, 2005, Reporters Without Borders had an article "Xinhua
: the world's biggest propaganda agency" based on what RSF found in
the role of Xinhua News Agency and the Chinese Communist Party. Read
the article in
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=15172
An outline of the article:
* Xinhua is more and more regularly cited as a credible
source - nearly one third of the news reports on
China selected by Google News originate from the
agency - Xinhua, the head of which has the rank of
minister, is the linchpin of control of the Chinese
media.
* Xinhua adopted its current name in January 1937.
Since October 1949, this state-run news agency has
been completely subordinate to the CCP.
* Xinhua has for last few months been putting out news
reports embarrassing to the government, but they are
designed to fool the international community, since
they are not published in Chinese.
The English report of RSF on Xinhua can be found in
http://www.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/Report_Xinhua_Eng.pdf
