In today's tour of state-sponsored propaganda, China's media
pounces on Melissa Chan, North Koreans get a taste of the real
world and Syrian media goes X-rated. We begin in Beijing.
Melissa Chan Got What She Deserved  Al Jazeera's Melissa Chan
may have bravely exposed government land grabs and black
jails while reporting in China but she totally deserved to
be expelled from the country this week. At least that's the view
of an Orwellian editorial in China's state-run newspaper Global
Times Thursday. "She has produced some programs which are
intolerable for China," reads the hit piece. But the editorial
is not just opinionated bluster. It also has this Pulitzer
Prize-worthy scoop: "According to foreign journalist sources
here in Beijing, Melissa Chan holds an aggressive political
stance." Oh, no!  Without giving any substantive criticism of
her work, the editors move on to attacking the international
press at large. "Foreign journalists in China must abide by
journalistic ethics," it reads. "They have their v