Criticism of Renmin ribao
(April 1957)

Source: HQ, 2 (Aug. 25, 1968), 14. Other Chinese Text: Mao liang, pp. 310-313.
Available English Translations: PR, 11:37 (Sept. 13, 1968), 22; CB, 897 (Dec. 10,
1969), 48.

Party newspapers should provide prompt publicity for the Party's policy. It
was a mistake [of Renmin ribao] not to give coverage on the conference on
propaganda work! This conference was held jointly by people inside and
outside the Party. Why was it not given coverage by the paper? Why wasn’t
there an editorial on the Supreme State Conference? Why was the Party’s
policy kept secret? There is something fishy here. What is the fishy thing? In
the past people said that the newspaper was run by pedants. Now people should
say that the paper is run by some dead people. Most of you are viewing the
Central Committee’s policies negatively. You oppose and object to the policies
of the Central Committee. You disapprove of the politics of the Central
Committee.
--- Notes

See text Apr. 10, 1957, source note; text Apr. 1957(2), notes 36 and 39; text Jan. 1958(5),
and especially text Jan. 12, 1958(2), paragraph 7.