censorship - Is the propaganda ministry on the way out?

Yes, says Li Xiguang, director at the Centre of International Communication studies and dean of the School of Journalism at the leading Tsinghua University in a recent book on the internet in Asia. He paints a picture where the traditional ways of controlling the news in China have been eroded over the past five years and have made the propaganda bureau's increasingly obsolete.
Even when that is true, the controllers are kicking back aggressively, writes Joseph Kahn in the New York Times. I could not get to the original story (although I guess that the NYT is not blocked here in the US), but fellow bloggers Joseph Bosco and Peking Duck report extensively. "Beijing professors say censorship in China is worse than before", says Peking Duck.
It looks like a dinosaur is hitting around. They are still around, they might be dying, but cannot be ignored. You might get stepped upon, although some of the Beijing professors are now daring enough to hit out.