{"id":2595,"date":"2006-11-15T10:41:02","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T02:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwei.webfactional.com\/?p=2595"},"modified":"2006-11-15T10:41:02","modified_gmt":"2006-11-15T02:41:02","slug":"south_china_morning_post_clamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/newspapers\/south_china_morning_post_clamp.php","title":{"rendered":"South China Morning Post clamps down on spoofing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a move eerily reminiscent of Chinese media regulators’ fruitless attempts to stop online video and Photoshop parodies (\u6076\u641e), the editor of the South China Morning Post<\/em> has fired two senior editors for producing an in-house spoof of the newspaper’s front page as a gift for a departing colleague.<\/p>\n

Asia Sentinel reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

South China Morning Post Editor Mark Clifford fired staff members for producing an in-house spoof. \u201cIt\u2019s not something that you would show to your mother,\u201d he complained. Now newspaper staffers have taken their case against Clifford to the owners.<\/p>\n

In an unprecedented action, an estimated 80-plus newsroom staffers \u2013 male, female, Chinese and western alike \u2013 have signed what amounts to a no-confidence vote in Mark Clifford, the editor-in-chief of Hong Kong\u2019s largest English language newspaper, after he fired two senior editors for their small roles in a mock front page farewell gift for another editor whom Clifford had fired.<\/p>\n

The incident, which began as a traditional office ritual for a departing employee, has uncovered a sharp divide in the newsroom of one of Asia\u2019s oldest newspapers, essentially pitting a new chief editor against many of the paper\u2019s long-time employees.<\/p>\n

\u201cLeaving pages\u201d as British-oriented journalists call them, are a tradition in western journalism across the globe, typically a gentle satiric poke full of inside jokes delivered at the exiting employee\u2019s expense during a farewell office party.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If Clifford loses his job at the SCMP, perhaps SARFT will offer him a job heading up an anti-online-spoof task force. There’s always room for another hack with no sense of humor in China’s media regulatory bodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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