No front page of the day today, because they are all bad.
The Beijing News has some really boring headlines, although we must remember that their editor-in-chief is in jail , so we can’t be too critical.
The headlines are:
– Tiananmen Square Viewing Podium Under Repair from Today
– Count Down to Beijing Olympic Games Starts September 1
– Museum Tickets Free For Minors
– Illegal Clinic Still in Operation Despite Repeated Warnings (with photo)
– Stop Using Torture to Extort Confessions from Arrested People (well, hello – ed)
Today there is a special award for the funniest front page of the day. A big ha ha to Beijing Daily Messenger for a headline that is very ambiguous on first glance because of its juxtaposition with a photograph:
The headline is: China Stops Dialogue with US on Human Rights (中国／中止／与美／人权对话 — the story is about China opposition to the US raising an anti-China motion at the UN’s human rights conference). But you can also read the headline as “China stops talking with beauties” (中国／中止／与美人／权对话
) if your attention is caught by the photo below, which is captioned “future super models”.
Another noteworthy headline from today’s newspapers is on the Beijing Youth Daily: “China Says No to US for its Unfair Visa Policy”.
The policy is part of the Homeland Security effort. It requires applicants to leave their fingerprints when applying for visas. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says that this policy violate Chinese applicants human rights, because not all countries’ citizens are subject to the same requirements.