{"id":5756,"date":"2005-12-29T04:19:35","date_gmt":"2005-12-29T11:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/12\/29\/china-removes-editor-of-feisty-tabloid-benjamin-kang-lim-and-chris-buckley\/"},"modified":"2005-12-29T04:19:35","modified_gmt":"2005-12-29T11:19:35","slug":"china-removes-editor-of-feisty-tabloid-benjamin-kang-lim-and-chris-buckley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/12\/china-removes-editor-of-feisty-tabloid-benjamin-kang-lim-and-chris-buckley\/","title":{"rendered":"China removes editor of feisty tabloid &#8211; Benjamin Kang Lim and Chris Buckley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/images\/x1pJK17pt72HwrXYKTwfn2jigP1MXfxVk4qvXjD5cpbwxGMdzNLWTYxsCFNRSvtr039e5FnhT3HKM6Klf2er5IELyfeFhWsMiPXvO9EMAI4klal8BzZphAAm_ycPAfUmjHIiAs4ZcNtiafDXPiRq95W8Q.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/images\/x1pJK17pt72HwrXYKTwfn2jigP1MXfxVk4qvXjD5cpbwxGMdzNLWTYxsCFNRSvtr039e5FnhT3HKM6Klf2er5IELyfeFhWsMiPXvO9EMAI4klal8BzZphAAm_ycPAfUmjHIiAs4ZcNtiafDXPiRq95W8Q.jpg','popup','width=480+20,height=300+20,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/images\/x1pJK17pt72HwrXYKTwfn2jigP1MXfxVk4qvXjD5cpbwxGMdzNLWTYxsCFNRSvtr039e5FnhT3HKM6Klf2er5IELyfeFhWsMiPXvO9EMAI4klal8BzZphAAm_ycPAfUmjHIiAs4ZcNtiafDXPiRq95W8Q-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"160\" alt=\"X1Pjk17Pt72Hwrxyktwfn2Jigp1Mxfxvk4Qvxjd5Cpbwxgmdznlwtyxscfnrsvtr039E5Fnht3Hkm6Klf2Er5Ielyfefhwsmipxvo9Emai4Klal8Bzzphaam Ycpafumjhiias4Zcntiafdxpirq95W8Q\" \/><\/a> From Reuters, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/world\/20051228-0622-china-press.html\">via SanDiego.com:<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe top editor of one of China&#8217;s boldest newspapers has been dismissed in what observers said was a move to strengthen Communist Party control over the media.<\/p>\n<p>Yang Bin, the editor-in-chief of the Beijing News &#8211;  a tabloid that has often reported on official missteps and misdeeds &#8211;  was removed on Wednesday, Chinese journalists and media experts said.<\/p>\n<p>The precise reasons for Yang&#8217;s dismissal were unclear. But <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?s=pu+zhiqiang\" target=\"_blank\">Pu Zhiqiang<\/a>, a Beijing-based lawyer who often represents journalists and knew of Yang&#8217;s removal, said party officials had accused the paper of &#8216;multiple errors&#8217;.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nBlogger An Ti <a href=\"http:\/\/spaces.msn.com\/members\/mranti\/Blog\/cns!1pnO639rFr97m8ie7eTTDIqA!2968.entry\" target=\"_blank\">broke this news<\/a>  and is <a href=\"http:\/\/spaces.msn.com\/members\/mranti\/Blog\/cns!1pnO639rFr97m8ie7eTTDIqA!3061.entry\" target=\"_blank\">calling for a boycott<\/a> of the newspaper on <a href=\"http:\/\/spaces.msn.com\/members\/mranti\/PersonalSpace.aspx?_c01_blogpart=blogmgmt&_c=blogpart\">his blog<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>More on this topic, via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogsearch.google.com\/blogsearch?hl=en&#038;scoring=d&#038;filter=0&#038;q=%E6%96%B0%E4%BA%AC%E6%8A%A5&#038;btnG=Search+Blogs\">Google Blog Search<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/search\/%E6%96%B0%E4%BA%AC%E6%8A%A5\">Technorati Search<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Reuters, via SanDiego.com: The top editor of one of China&#8217;s boldest newspapers has been dismissed in what observers said was a move to strengthen Communist Party control over the media. Yang Bin, the editor-in-chief of the Beijing News &#8211; a tabloid that has often reported on official missteps and misdeeds &#8211; was removed on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,100,1051],"tags":[6357,2625,242],"class_list":["post-5756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-revolution","category-politics","category-top-article","tag-an-ti","tag-beijing-news","tag-media-conditions","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>China removes editor of feisty tabloid - Benjamin Kang Lim and Chris Buckley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/12\/china-removes-editor-of-feisty-tabloid-benjamin-kang-lim-and-chris-buckley\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"China removes editor of feisty tabloid - Benjamin Kang Lim and Chris Buckley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From Reuters, via SanDiego.com: The top editor of one of China&#8217;s boldest newspapers has been dismissed in what observers said was a move to strengthen Communist Party control over the media. 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