China’s anti-corruption watchdog has taken on People’s Daily, the flagship newspaper of the ruling party, accusing it of taking bribes to bury news and using the threat of exposure to blackmail.
China is well into the second year of a sweeping anti-corruption campaign under President Xi Jinping, whose purge of rival political factions has been accompanied by the detention of prominent journalists, lawyers and civil rights campaigners.
“Some domestic bureaux used the party’s resources to get profits by setting up co-operation deals. Some subsidiaries had instances of payment for news, payment not to publish and blackmail,” the watchdog said in its report on the People’s Daily, issued over the weekend.
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