July 25, 2008
Beijing News recalled from newsstands for carrying subversive picture
"Yesterday, Beijing News published an interview with former Associated Press Beijing-based reporter Liu Xiangcheng. The story appeared in page C15, and belongs to the series about thirty years of reform. The title was I used photographs to record the path that China went through. Next to the story is a photograph that Liu took during the June 4th incident in 1989. The photo showed a couple of wounded civilians being spirited away in a tricycle cart. Reportedly, the authorities recalled all copies of Beijing News after they realized what had happened. The story has also been removed from the online edition of Beijing News. It is expected that many people at Beijing News including the reporter, the page editor and senior editors will be punished." [EastSouthWestNorth]
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I thought every country had some rough spots in their history and overcame them... what's wrong with that? In Canada we undertook one of the most extensive genocides in all of human history against our native peoples and today we're... uh.... hmmmm, it still hasn't been resolved to their satisfaction, though we finally apologized. Point is, people are actually capable of understanding that mistakes in the past aren't cause for burning down cities, overthrowing governments and descending into complete anarchy. Mistakes are there to learn from... is that so dangerous?