According to the Global Service Center for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party (GSCQCCP), Liang Qinxia, a former reporter for the Sichuan Farmers’ Daily used her real name to quit the CCP. Liang expressed that she felt very disappointed with the communist regime for squashing freedom of information and public opinion.
Liang, a news reporter for ten years, said that Chinese journalists are treated as the lowest class in society. She says that they are often exploited by the upper levels of media management.
“Although journalists are supposed to report the truth, Chinese reporters do not have freedom of speech and cannot accurately report what they see to the Chinese people. Important stories have repeatedly been covered up and controlled. Because of this, I lost confidence in the CCP and decided to quit the organization,” said Liang.
“I quit the Communist Youth League (CYL) and I want to withdraw immediately,” Liang stated.
“If foreign reporters are kings then Chinese reporters are merely kings of beggars,” observed Liang, “
In China, corruption runs rampant throughout all businesses to an alarming degree. But Chinese reporters have no power to speak. After seeing all that I have, I no longer have any confidence in this system.
Liang noted a couple of journalists were recently arrested for revealing “tofu-dregs schoolhouses”—inferior quality buildings that collapsed and killed many school children during the May 12 Sichuan Earthquake.
“In China, the CCP decides what is news. If you say anything bad about the party, your newspaper will be shut down. Journalists naturally want to speak out against injustice and defend people’s rights. But when the propaganda department sees these kinds of reports, they are immediately censored. It’s all about power, money and making deals,” said Liang.
As a front line journalist, forty-year-old Liang once exposed how her manager, Deng Wanxiang, bribed and coerced journalists. But when she spoke out, she was forced to quit her job.
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