Chinese media keeps its eye on Yushu as the relief effort continues

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Jianghuai Morning News, April 19, 2010

Hu Jintao is on the cover of practically all of today’s mainland papers. Many editors chose to run a photo of the president consoling an ethnic Tibetan girl during a hospital visit in Yushu, the county in Qinghai Province that was hit with an earthquake on April 14. Some papers even gave her a name, Dolma (卓玛).

Other papers, such as the Jianghuai Morning News, went with a slogan Hu wrote on the blackboard of a school for orphaned students: “There will be new schools! There will be new homes!” (新学校,会有的!新家园,会有的!)

The Hefei-based newspaper has been particularly zealous in its coverage of the earthquake. Saturday’s edition (a slim 16 pages), which was entirely devoted to disaster reporting, employed a spin on a familiar headline:

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Jianghuai Morning News, April 17, 2010

Today
We are all from Yushu

Today, we publish a special issue of the Morning News. Today, we only run news having to do with Yushu

For we are all from Yushu.

Today, we are not concerned with any other news. Our sole concern is for our mothers and fathers, our sisters and brothers.

Our sole concern is for their life and death, their weakness and their tenacity.

Today, we will donate the proceeds of today’s Morning News sales so that the meager efforts of indivuals taken together can form the loving care of the masses.

We pray for Yushu, for our mothers and fathers, for our sisters and brothers.

Today,

We are all from Yushu.

The theme continued on Sunday with the headline, “The Whole City Is From Yushu.” Today’s paper reported that Saturday’s charity issue resulted in a donation of 13,546.6 yuan.

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