Category Archives: Newspapers

All citizens to supervise rude walking behavior

Posted on 2004-03-22 by Jeremy Goldkorn

FRONT PAGE OF THE DAY None of the papers pays much heed to some events on an island somewhere in the South China Sea. Oh well. The Beijing Morning Post has the best mix of stories today, with these headlines: … Continue reading →

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Interesting times: Breaking the thousand-year silence of this ancient capital

Posted on 2004-03-21 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Taiwan held an election and a referendum. The referendum didn’t mean anything because not enough people voted. Incumbent President and Vice-President Chen Shui-bian and Anette Lu won the election by a tiny number votes. They were both shot and oh-so-lightly … Continue reading →

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Poisoned children and the slow bus to Chaoyang

Posted on 2004-03-19 by Jeremy Goldkorn

FRONT PAGE OF THE DAY The Beijing News wins because of its newsworthy headline: WHO POISONED THE CHILDREN? The story is about a school children who were apparently poisoned by a lead and zinc processing factory in Hebei . The … Continue reading →

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Private property, murderers, gambling software, naval exercises, human rights

Posted on 2004-03-18 by Jeremy Goldkorn

FRONT PAGE OF THE DAY The Southern Weekend (nanfang zhoumo) gets the prize for covering all the hot topics of the week. These are the headlines: PROTECTING PRIVATE PROPERTY IS A NECESSARY STEP FOR THE RISE OF A GREAT STATE … Continue reading →

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Navy excercises and serial killers

Posted on 2004-03-17 by Jeremy Goldkorn

FRONT PAGE OF THE DAY The Beijing Morning Post wins for a combination of international and Chinese news unmatched by any of the other papers. The headlines are: SICHUAN AND BEIJING MARCHING TOWARD NEW COOPERATION (Some friendly agreement signed between … Continue reading →

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Airbus in the People’s Daily

Posted on 2004-03-12 by Jeremy Goldkorn

An Airbus ad in the People’s Daily (March 8) involving a rather cheesy play on Chinese characters: Airbus in Chinese is ‘kongzhong keche’, literally ‘bus in the middle of the sky’. In this ad, the vertical stroke in the character … Continue reading →

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Beijing Party Secretary: the media must monitor the government; China Daily’s homemade nuclear reactor

Posted on 2004-03-11 by Jeremy Goldkorn

FRONT PAGE OF THE DAY The Beijing News, for the headline: LIU QI: I AM AN IMPORTANT TARGET FOR YOU TO MONITOR. Liu Qi is Beijing’s Party Secretary. The article is an interview with him in which he says that … Continue reading →

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Mary Kay, God, and the People’s Daily

Posted on 2004-03-10 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Recently more and more ads for multinational brands have been appearing in The People’s Daily: Cisco, GM and Airbus being a few of the more prominent. On the other hand People’s Daily advertorials, not always clearly marked as such, are … Continue reading →

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Stop press: Wives must know how much their husbands earn!

Posted on 2004-03-09 by Jeremy Goldkorn

FROM PAGE OF THE DAY The Beijing News wins hands down for a lovely picture of a bunch of female members of the CPPCC (Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference) singing the joys of being a woman on Monday, which was … Continue reading →

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The exploited class and other Great Topics

Posted on 2004-03-08 by Jeremy Goldkorn

FRONT PAGE OF THE DAY After a string of awful front pages, The Beijing Daily Messenger takes the prize today for NOT covering half the page with tacky adverts, and for a noteworthy headline: THE WORDS ‘EXPLOITED CLASS’ TO BE … Continue reading →

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