{"id":160939,"date":"2013-08-04T15:22:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T22:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=160939"},"modified":"2013-08-07T22:40:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T05:40:58","slug":"fear-and-loathing-at-the-china-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/08\/fear-and-loathing-at-the-china-daily\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear and Loathing at the China Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mitch Moxley, who arrived in China in 2007 for a job at <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/china-daily\/\">The China Daily<\/a>, recounts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/china\/archive\/2013\/08\/fear-and-loathing-at-the-china-daily\/278334\/\"><strong>the frustrations of working for China\u2019s English language, Communist Party mouthpiece newspaper<\/strong><\/a>. He has recently published a memoir of his six years in China, entitled <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0062124439\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0062124439&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=chidigtim0b-20\">Apologies to My Censor: The High and Low Adventures of a Foreigner in China<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=chidigtim0b-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0062124439\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/em>. His stint at the China Daily, however, only lasted one year:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The stories I was assigned were mostly puff pieces that would be tucked into the business section&#8217;s back pages, or in a weekend supplement called Business Weekly. One of the first stories I wrote for China Daily, with a Chinese cowriter, was about an Israeli products fair downtown. We sampled olives and hummus and wine. It was a lovely afternoon, but it wasn&#8217;t a story. It shouldn&#8217;t have even garnered a brief, but we wrote a feature about it anyway, reporting&#8211; despite a total lack of substantiating evidence &#8212; that Israeli goods were taking the Chinese market by storm.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] While writing government-friendly puff pieces took up most\u00a0of my workweek, Friday was the one day I still worked an editing shift, polishing the <em>China Daily<\/em> opinion pages. Many of\u00a0the articles weren&#8217;t so much arguments supported by fact, but\u00a0rants supported by nothing. Many violated everything I had ever\u00a0learned about journalistic ethics, including <em>China Daily&#8217;<\/em>s own\u00a0code: &#8220;Factual, Honest, Fair, Complete.&#8221; It was sometimes hard\u00a0to stomach editing the opinion pages, but I didn&#8217;t have much of a\u00a0choice. I knew any complaints would fall on deaf ears.\u00a0[<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/china\/archive\/2013\/08\/fear-and-loathing-at-the-china-daily\/278334\/\">Source<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Watch a boozy interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/beijingcream.com\/2013\/06\/three-shots-with-mitch-moxley\/\">Mitch Moxley via Beijing Cream<\/a>, or read <a href=\"http:\/\/arts.nationalpost.com\/2013\/07\/02\/qa-mitch-moxley-author-of-apologies-to-my-censor\/\">The National Post\u2019s Q&amp;A.<\/a> Read more about Mitch Moxley\u2019s memoir via <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/07\/freelancer-describes-experience-writing-on-mongolian-prostitution\/\">CDT<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitch Moxley, who arrived in China in 2007 for a job at The China Daily, recounts the frustrations of working for China\u2019s English language, Communist Party mouthpiece newspaper. 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