Li Datong
China Blog reports on a speech Li Datong gave yesterday at a meeting of the media association in Hong Kong. Li Datong was the editor of Freezing Point, a supplement of the China Youth Daily, who lost his job a few years ago for being too critical.
As we noted before, despite that setback, he remained optimistic about the long-term direction China's media are taking, although it would not go very fast, he warned.
Publications must survive on financial support of the market, not the government. And the Internet offers an outlet for stories that are blocked from being run by newspapers and magazines. Under these pressures, the system of press control is like "solid ice melting," he says. "The layers are beginning to split and break apart."
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