Last week, che International Federation of Journalists - www.ifj.org - released copies of leaked instructions from China's Communist Party Central Propaganda Department. These include instructions to the media to restrict coverage of the recent spate of school and kindergarten mass murders, the real estate bubble, the visit of North Korea leader Kim, political trends in Taiwan and certain aspects of the Shanghai Expo. However, according to RFA's Zhang Weiguo, these topics are all hot on the Internet, so the Central Propaganda Department's attempt to restrict coverage may be weakening.
