{"id":31928,"date":"2013-01-12T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=31928 "},"modified":"2013-01-12T23:02:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T23:02:00","slug":"31928-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=31928","title":{"rendered":"China censor row paper Southern Weekly back on stands"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Guangdong-based Southern Weekly is known for investigating reporting<\/div>
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A Chinese newspaper that saw a stand-off over censorship has published a new issue, as police removed a small number of demonstrators outside its offices.<\/div>
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The Southern Weekly went on sale two days after a reported agreement to end the dispute.<\/div>
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Staff had demanded a top propaganda chief step down after a New Year message calling for reform was changed.<\/div>
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The row had sparked small protests and displays of solidarity from other media outlets.<\/div>
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Southern Weekly – a Guangdong-based paper also known as Southern Weekend – is a well-respected publication.<\/div>
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Journalists sought the resignation of top propaganda official Tuo Zhen after a piece calling for guaranteed constitutional rights was watered down.<\/div>
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The row – which led to some staff stopping work – was reportedly defused by new provincial party chief Hu Chunhua, although details are not clear.<\/div>
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‘Rigid attitudes’<\/div>
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The paper’s latest issue, published on Thursday as normal, followed Southern Weekly’s long tradition of cutting-edge, investigative journalism.<\/div>
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It led with a lengthy report about a fire at a makeshift Henan orphanage. It also contained investigative reports on the environmental damage caused by abandoned coal mines in Shanxi province and a poor man in Jiangsu province who was forced to administer his own dialysis treatments.<\/div>
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Only a small section of the paper indirectly referred to Southern Weekly’s recent row with the censors.<\/div>
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The paper republished an editorial from Communist Party paper People’s Daily which said that methods the party used to control the media “must keep up with the times”.<\/div>
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In an article commenting on the editorial, the Southern Weekly argued that China’s policy of opening up must also be reflected in a more open media.<\/div>
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“We should toss away old and rigid attitudes that are not good for fixing the mental knots and rallying people’s minds”, the editorial noted.<\/div>
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Outside the paper’s headquarters in Guangzhou, a handful of protesters – one in a wheel chair – were bundled into a van by police.<\/div>
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Earlier in the week larger groups of people had turned out to show their support for the paper, but these numbers appeared to have dropped.<\/div>
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The dispute provoked strong reaction on the internet, including from high-profile bloggers.<\/div>
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It also spread beyond Southern Weekly, after some papers tried to disobey an apparent government directive ordering papers to publish a Global Times editorial blaming the confrontation on “activists outside the media industry”.<\/div>
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Other media portals published disclaimers saying they did not endorse the views contained in the editorial.<\/div>
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