The Legacy of the Southern Weekly Protests
Now that Southern Weekly has returned to publishing following heated protests against a heavy-handed censorship order, the question remains over what impact this incident will have on journalism in China. In the Atlantic, Helen Gao writes that the protests showed a new consciousness among Chinese jou ...
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More journalists in China would do well to follow the example of Southern Weekly and stand up to the arrogant know-nothing commissars in the various propaganda bureaus when ordered to censor themsevles or use only the sanitized Xinhua version of a given news story.