Category Archives: Media and Advertising

Wall Street Journal China bureau to Murdoch: stay away!

Rupert Murdoch’s recent $5 billion bid to buy Dow Jones is causing some discomfort at the China bureau of that company’s subsidiary The Wall Street Journal

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Baidu as a verb

Baidu changes its ‘search’ button to 百度一下.

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GAPP newspaper pirates blogger

Wang Xiaofeng erupts at China Press and Publishing Journal stealing one of his essays.

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The world may not be flat…

… but something is In November last year, Danwei published a short post titled Chinese journalists tire of Thomas Friedman. Someobody named Fifi just left a comment on that post: Friedman and his flat earth theory has one major flaw, … Continue reading →

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Multinational wordplay

A development near Gongti uses brand names to attract clients.

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The wisdom of rabbits

Bunnies act out Baltasar Gracian’s The Way of Worldly Wisdom in Southern People Weekly.

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GAPP to clean up periodicals; Anti-Piracy Office shuts down a magazine

China New Observer (中国新观察) shut down by GAPP and the anti-pornography and anti-piracy office. Censorship, or punishment for scam running?

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Xi’an pirate TV station shut down

A village-run TV station in Xi’an’s Shuangqiaotou village (双桥头村) is shut down by the authorities.

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Bandit chicken in Hunan

A restaurant in Xiangfan, Hubei (湖北省襄樊市) is called ‘West Hunan Bandit Chicken’ (湘西土匪鸡)

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Reuters – still legal after 50 years

Xinhua backs down on foreign wire service rules? Or just an empty gesture of friendliness?

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