media - Outspoken Beida media professor sidelined

Professor Jiao Guobiao of the journalism department of Beijing University saw most of his work removed after he critized the still powerful Central Propaganda Department. The China Digital News here summerizes an article in Yazhou Zhoukan, translated by ESWN.
Professor Jiao can no longer teach or advise master students. "There are still many hidden rules in Chinese society about what may or may not be said. I hope that I can shine the light on some of these things," Jiao says in the interview.
Rather useful is the critical introduction of the interview by ESWN, that put the professor in a rather less heroic light. "Politically, this article is weak in several spots. Jiao showed a blind admiration for the American political system, using it as the standard towards which everybody else ought to be moving," ESWN writes. And: "The arguments are also not well-rounded, and the author destroys himself with some unfortunate slips. The attack on the Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department focused on his provincial origin."