Propaganda Overdrive

Here's an article hack job on China Daily about Liu Xiaobo, the Nobel Peace Prize winner this year. In the story, they refer to the Tiananmen Massacre as the "severe political turmoil of 1989"... pathetic.

More telling, here's the list of related "articles" on the subject:

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* Nobel Peace Prize politically distorted
* Liu Xiaobo's Nobel win criticized as harming prize's spirit
* Nobel Peace Prize goes astray politically
* The Nobel committee owes China an apology
* Liu Xiaobo's Nobel win criticized as harming prize's spirit
* Gradual political reform good for China
* Liu Xiaobo's Nobel win comes amid western countries' push for values: Chinese scholar
* Western governments have "no right to interfere" in China's affairs: FM spokesman

So from media blackout to full-court press in a week... impressive. Of course, all dissenting views are suppressed.

Chinese Twitter user seized after supporting Liu Xiaobo

I though Twitter was banned/blocked in China.