Sunday, August 12, 2007

Who is reading the China Daily?

I'm not, not even their own editors read it, illlustrates ESWN with a nice screenshot, but somebody must have discovered this. The China Daily picked up a sentence from Reuters that would normally have been sanatized in a report on the Olympics:
"Security was tight around Tiananmen Square, where troops crushed pro-democracy demonstrations in 1989 with huge loss of life, as crowds gathered for the celebrations."
Of course, we cannot blame them for not reading their own propaganda, but it looks like somebody is going to shop wood for a while in one of the few forests taht have not yet been cut down.
More at ESWN.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I don't think it's a big deal at China Daily. Like you say, nobody reads it so they don't get too worried when something like this slips in for a few hours. If it was the People's Daily however ...

Anonymous said...

indeed, the English-language section of the People's Daily website copied the China Daily article over verbatim and left it there. People's Daily has now revised its story. The screen captures were shown in Hong Kong's Apple Daily.

Anonymous said...

a lot of people read it, or how did they find out?