Not only in China

In CNN Money about the creation of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence:

Media in China was more a propaganda machine than a source of information or entertainment. The government reached out to us and said, "This is what we think is right. This is what everybody should do".

It's not only media in China, but corporate communication in every big vertical organization. It's fascinating to think that what precipitated the end of communism will probably do likewise for big industrial organizations built like a pyramid, and for the same reasons.