Could it be a revenge on journalists?

Those who embarrass authorities here will have to pay the price. It's crystal clear.

Fu Hua, a former reporter for China Business News, facing charges of bribery, is just another case.

Fu has been accused of accepting 30,000 yuan in 2005 from two employees of Changchun Longjiapu Airport in northeast China's Jilin province. They had tipped off Fu about the third-rate quality of work in progress at the airport, under construction at that time.