{"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 – Benjamin Kang Lim and Chris Buckley"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n<\/a> From Reuters, via SanDiego.com:<\/a>\n<\/p>\n \nThe top editor of one of China’s boldest newspapers has been dismissed in what observers said was a move to strengthen Communist Party control over the media.<\/p>\n Yang Bin, the editor-in-chief of the Beijing News – a tabloid that has often reported on official missteps and misdeeds – was removed on Wednesday, Chinese journalists and media experts said.<\/p>\n The precise reasons for Yang’s dismissal were unclear. But Pu Zhiqiang<\/a>, a Beijing-based lawyer who often represents journalists and knew of Yang’s removal, said party officials had accused the paper of ‘multiple errors’.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \nBlogger An Ti broke this news<\/a> and is calling for a boycott<\/a> of the newspaper on his blog<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n More on this topic, via Google Blog Search<\/a> and Technorati Search<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From Reuters, via SanDiego.com: The top editor of one of China’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 – a tabloid that has often reported on official missteps and misdeeds – was removed on […]<\/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":"\n