An Olympic oversight
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The censors sometimes fall asleep on the job.
Yesterday’s Beijing News had an interesting article about an Associated Press reporter, Liu Xiangcheng, who has witnessed 30 years of changes in China’s capital.
Along with the article were several great photos. Unfortunately for some poor censor and some journalists, who will certainly be taken to the woodshed, one of the photos was of Beijing residents rushing wounded people away from Tiananmen Square on the back of a flat-bed tricycle.
While the article didn’t say so, the photo is clearly from the Tiananmen bloodbath on June 4, 1989, when troops in and near the square opened fire on their Chinese brethren, killing hundreds, and maybe more than 1,000, pro-democracy protesters.
China’s Communist Party has tried to expunge this incident from history, generally blocking mention or discussion of it from mass media.
Once the propaganda department realized what the newspaper contained, they reportedly sent employees out to kiosks to seize the newspaper. The page was also deleted from the online edition of the paper. Roland Soong’s ESWN blog said: “It is expected that many people at Beijing News including the reporter, the page editor and senior editors will be punished.”
Ouch! Chinese journalists face a lot of risks.
What were the motives of the journalists and editors? Did they just make a mistake, or did they really wanted to push the limits?
It would show some respect for the Chinese journalist and editors at Beijing News if there was at least an attempt to get their side of the story. Likewise, get the story from the Propaganda Department.
Posted by: A B | July 25, 2008 at 10:26 AM
Ode to the CCP
They grind down the CCP,
They should not have to,but they do
They give you all the faults they have
And then add some extra,just for you.
Posted by: Stan | July 25, 2008 at 12:52 PM
Correction
ODE TO THE CCP
They grind you down the CCP,
They should have to, but they do.
They give you all the faults they have,
And then add some extra ,just for you!
Posted by: Stan | July 25, 2008 at 01:04 PM
Tim,
Very little or no blood shed in Tiananmen square. All the blood was on the streets leading to Tiananmen square.
Posted by: anon | July 25, 2008 at 11:16 PM
Very good article this week in the New Yorker on how Chinese view their government, the global press, and politics.
Posted by: andreas | July 26, 2008 at 02:23 AM
News reports from Beijing Review at the time reported that there were no deaths in Tienanmen Square, and the deaths which did occur were under fifty. Also reported, over a thousand PLA military vehicles were burned and fire gutted by the rioters.
If a lawful police officer give you a command in the United States, the officer is given the use of a reasonable about of force to contain and control an unlawful demonstrator.
Why do the Jew Klux Klan newspaper reporters operating in a Gestapo manner in China expect that their notions of democracy, freedom of the criminal, should apply in China, but should be ignored in America?
Is it really the Jew man's place to show the Chinese their lowly place in the civilized world by making a riot a Pro-Democracy demonstration in the Gestapo press.
I hear that the leader of the Jew Klux Klan is coming to China for the Olympics. Which Chinese leader is going to sit beside him and suck the candy dollars out of his pockets?
Posted by: Marvin L Foushee | July 26, 2008 at 02:28 AM
To Marvin
You are one sick puppy.Why don't you haunt some other blog. There are many sewers for you to go to...anything to do with the CCP would fill the bill. Right up your alley Mr Sickmind.
Posted by: stan | July 26, 2008 at 10:29 AM
Stan, why don't you go deeper under cover and change your name online name to Minnie Mouse so that the CPC won't know who you and A B are.
Posted by: Marvin L Foushee | July 26, 2008 at 06:38 PM
To Marvin
How about I send AB over to your house and you can discuss your life as a bon bon queen? I see you as a 300lb shut-in who was a slack jawed weasel in your former life. I also have it on good authority that when you go in the park..all the dogs begin to bark!
Posted by: Stan | July 28, 2008 at 08:37 AM
To Marvin
How about I send AB over to your house and you can discuss your life as a bon bon queen? I see you as a 300lb shut-in who was a slack jawed weasel in your former life. I also have it on good authority that when you go in the park..all the dogs begin to bark!
Posted by: Stan | July 28, 2008 at 08:38 AM