FRONT PAGE OF THE DAY
Today’s winner is the tabloid Xinbao — English name recently changed to Beijing Daily Messenger. The big headline is: Huang Dingyu fired by Central Academy of Drama yesterday evening. The Central Academy’s Professor Huang has apparently been up to all kinds of no good.
The Xinbao is today’s Front Page of the Day because of the sheer entertainment value of the small headline in blue, on the front page, above the fold:
ONLY ONE GOLF COURSE APPROVED IN THE WHOLE COUNTRY
Yes that’s right folks, there may be a hundred thousand golf courses across China, but only one is officially approved.
WORST FRONT PAGE OF THE DAY
The award goes to Beijing Morning Post (Beijing Chenbao) for execrable design, made worse by an ad for discount mobile phones covering almost a third of the page.
The large headline: The sense of security of the masses increases by 7.1 percent.
Don’t YOU feel safe?
The image shows delegates arriving for the six way North Korea talks, but this news is reported under the headline:
Journalists wait for 5 hours.
If the talks fail and nuclear war breaks out, the Morning Post will probably tell you that they are feeling a little hot.
THREE HOTTEST STORIES IN TODAY’S NEWSPAPERS
– North Korea six way talks
– Yao Ming scores his highest score in a single match
– Golf course issues
Tsss.