On Friday morning, four of China's prominent state-backed newspapers released scathing editorials of the United State's involvement in the Chen Guangcheng case. As the clock struck midnight that very same day, one of those papers, The Beijing News, succumbed to online criticism and offered a brief apology on its Sina Weibo account.
The Beijing News apologizes after online onslaught against Chen Guangcheng editorial
Beijing Daily accuses U.S. of using Chen Guangcheng as a tool to discredit China
The Beijing Daily released an editorial today accusing the U.S. and the Western media of using blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng as a tool to discredit and possibly blackmail China. They harshly criticize Ambassador Locke by name as well.
Just who on earth are we supposed to believe?
The space station, the Olympic pigs and white-collar wages Shanghaiist scans thousands of China headlines every single day, and believe us, we do want to believe all the news we read here in China, but every now and then, we come across something that makes us remind ourselves to take EVERYTHING we read with a great pinch of salt, no matter how authoritative the source may sound. Just yesterday, for instance, China Daily reported that...
It's a pig's life, dammit!
To improve pork quality, Beijing pigs will listen to soothing music
'Eleventh Five-Year Plan' ... and other popular catch-phrases
The English translations of the top 10 phrases used in Chinese newspapers in 2005 are:

