A reporter on the English-language version of the
Global Times (the sister paper of the ultra-nationalist Chinese-language paper of the same name, both of which are printed under the auspices of CCP-mouthpiece
People's Daily) has been tweeting about a new editorial stance for the paper's coverage of the
"two meetings" being introduced tomorrow, with almost every subject being opened up for discussion, in fact . .
"老总提到报道唯一的禁区是国家领导人的私生活。"
"The boss said that the only subject on which we cannot report is the personal issues of the leadership.
There's been a lot of false dawns in the progress of freedom of speech in China To my mind the freeing up of freedom of speech in a government-operated English-language newspaper may not actually add up to much, but then I may be wrong . . . .
2 comments:
FYI That reporter got pushed out.
GT may be not be a new animal but I think it will do better than Xinhua, People's daily.
the struggle in china for free-speech is not really publication vs publication but rather internally. There was once upon a time where people's daily was a pro-democratic paper who's journolist were relieved en masse.
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