media - PR guys admits he pays journalists

After six months in Beijing, a blogging PR-guy, makes his first entry about his work and admits he is paying Chinese journalists bribes, discovered Danwei.

I can now hear the collective, outraged gasp from my peers around the world. But, as adventurers throughout history have discovered, it is asking for a short trip to the dog-headed guillotine to judge China by your imperialist standards. Unless you have gunboats.

Honesty is of course a good thing, but there must be a reason why in the past ten years in China all the PR-people I have asked about it have denied they were paying Chinese journalist, while we all knew they were lying. Very often you find in China a gab between what people say and what people do, and they might do it to save their arse.
Microsoft has only one rule for its over 3,000 corporate bloggers: be smart. I'm not sure whether this entry by Image Thief was smart.