Lasting for three months until the end of 2013, the program will be provided for free (yay!) and beleaguered hacks at state owned news outlets will be expected to take an exam to get a press pass valid for 2014. As you would expect from such a program, topics included are "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" and "The Marxist View on Journalism", with things like journalism ethics and accuracy and all that other less important stuff at the bottom of the list.
At the end of August, the Poltiburo ordered all journalists to attend classes on Marxism in an effort to remind journos that they're employed to provide positive advertising for the CCP, and not allowed to go around investigating stuff and then reporting it without permission.
The program echoes the Seven Baselines for a Clean Internet, which also placed political interests above any of that bothersome fact-checking. Conversely enough, the idea of improving journalistic standards so that we don't get anymore stories about fake vaginas, or porn being passed off as news, or pictures of spaceships from Battlestar Galactica fansites, or articles from The Onion being reprinted verbatim as news, or satirical pieces from The New Yorker being plagarised as news (that's enough. Ed.) hasn't crossed anyone's mind
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