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Chinese Journalists Beat Censorship With Web
chris-chittleborough writes "When Beijing tried to make a journalist's pay at one newspaper depend on official reactions to their stories, a web-savvy reporter was able to create a groundswell of public opinion and reverse the move." From the article: "Just before the meeting, Li had posted a blistering letter on the newspaper's computer system attacking the Communist Party's propaganda czars and a plan by the editor in chief to dock reporters' pay if their stories upset party officials. No one told the editor in chief. For 90 minutes, he ran the meeting, oblivious to the political storm that was brewing. Then Li announced what he had done."
For those who are interested in the letter that got the Chinese censors so up in arms, a copy of Li Datong's letter can be found here.
The article time line was a bit to read through, but it sounds like the writer was fired and the section of the newspaper was closed in January... It looks like the points system was initialy introduced in August.
-Rick
"Most people in the U.S. wouldn't know they live in a tyrannical state if it walked up and grabbed their junk." - MyFirs
This isn't funny, it's Insightful.
Learn to mod.
The Roman Empire was a military dictatorship from the beginning (The Imperator was the military commander).
That's the First Century BC (I'll leave it to historians to quibble about whether the empire started with Caesar overstaying his term as Dictator or the crowning of Augustus), and it lasted the Fifth Century AD in the West--and another thousand years in the East.
That's a very long time to wait . . .
hawk