Media News - Friday, June 08, 2007
China newspaper editors sacked over Tiananmen ad
A newspaper in southwest China has sacked three of its editors over an
advertisement saluting mothers of protesters killed in the 1989
Tiananmen Square crackdown, a source with knowledge of the gaffe said on
Thursday. Li Zhaojun, deputy editor-in-chief of the Chengdu Evening News
in Sichuan's provincial capital Chengdu, and two other members of the
tabloid's editorial office had been dismissed, the source told Reuters
requesting anonymity.
On the 18th anniversary of the crackdown Monday, the lower right corner
of page 14 of the Chengdu Evening News ran a tiny ad reading: 'Paying
tribute to the strong(-willed) mothers of June 4 victims.' Authorities
interrogated newspaper staff to find out how the advertisement slipped
past censors.
Hong Kong's South China Morning Post said Wednesday a young female clerk
allowed the tribute to be published because she had never heard of the
crackdown. The Communist Party has banned references to the crackdown in
state media, the Internet and books as part of a whitewash campaign,
meaning most young Chinese are ignorant of the events. The 32-page
Chengdu Evening News, which boasts a circulation of 200,000, has not
suspended publication. (Reuters via Yahoo News)
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