Any journalist worth their salt, anywhere in the world, is hungry. They live for the scoop. In April 1957, before the profession was fatally poisoned in China by Mao’s Anti-Rightist Campaign, Zhang Liqun (张黎群), a pioneering editor at China Youth Daily, told his colleagues at a Beijing journalism conference that newspapers — rather than being “loudspeakers and … Continue reading The Mea Culpa Machine: Is the South China Morning Post pushing Chinese political ‘confessions’?
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The Mea Culpa Machine: Is the South China Morning Post pushing Chinese political ‘confessions’?
Any journalist worth their salt, anywhere in the world, is hungry. They live for the scoop. In April 1957, before the profession was fatally poisoned in China by Mao’s Anti-Rightist Campaign, Zhang Liqun (张黎群), a pioneering editor at China Youth Daily, told his colleagues at a Beijing journalism conference that newspapers — rather than being “loudspeakers and … Continue reading The Mea Culpa Machine: Is the South China Morning Post pushing Chinese political ‘confessions’?