When Chinese politician Bo Xilai was suspended from his high-profile post last month, few could have predicted it would become the biggest political drama China has seen in decades. It is now a tangled web of murder, corruption and political in-fighting - and the media have been spinning the narrative in all directions.
State controlled outlets were always going to back the government decision to oust Bo, but in a country where millions are now logging on to micro-blogging sites every day, new media is alive with breaking news, often speculating on developments ahead of the official propaganda machine. In this week's News Divide, we look at a political scandal that has seen the single voice of the state competing with a cacophony of online voices.
This week's News Bytes: A Mexican viral video gets pulled from the web and criticised for dressing-up child actors as drug traffickers and corrupt politicians; Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange makes his debut as a talk show host for the Kremlin-backed channel RT; a British production company starts work on a film about Rupert Murdoch and it is not about the hacking scandal; and what happened to the Fox News employee who dispatched anonymous memos from within its New York headquarters?
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