Not sure if you've been to the Xinhua English website, China View (www.chinaview.cn), lately. But on it I've made a (mock horror) terrible discovery. It's that Xinhua uses teaser pictures of scantily clad models on virtually every page for people to read more; examples here and here.

Not only that, but they've clearly also hired some sort of streetwise gossip columnist - they've got a lurid story inside of "newly-single" Eddie Murphy's "booty call" to Mariah Carey. Amazing.

What has happened to the party organ that once waxed enthusiastically about proletarian revolution and socialist internationalism? I guess that organ found something else to get excited about.