Today’s papers are all awful, so there is no front page of the day. The worst front page of the day was decided on the basis of print quality, or rather the lack of it. Here is today’s Beijing Youth Daily. Behind today’s paper are the front pages of the Youth Daily from Monday and Friday last week. Note the masthead: a different shade of red every day.
The large headline is: BEIJING “COOKS” THE HUGE OLYMPIC CAKE
Ho hum, it’s just such bullshit. Other stories in today’s news covered by most of the newspapers include a bust of an amphetamine-dealing gang working in the Phillipines and China (cops from both countries were involved), the release of a new model of Volkswagen’s popular Santana model, and something happening at Miyun reservoir that will make plenty of water available to Beijing for use in the spring.