27-01-2005, 01:55 PM
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 | Resident Peacekeeper | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Pokfulam Age: 40
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| US to stop paying reporters -- will HK follow?
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050126/D87S2IIO0.html Quote: |
President Bush ordered his Cabinet secretaries Wednesday not to hire columnists to promote administration agendas after disclosure that a second writer had been paid to assist an agency.
| http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/s.../GA27Df01.html Quote:
As with Tsang's article, the government laid down conditions for Hong Kong's newspapers. They were told to run that six-part series without abridgement or comment or not run a single word of it. The Standard refused to run those articles, just as it refused to run Tsang's.
The government apparently does not understand that the very foundation of a free press, which is so essential to democracy, makes it inimical to even make such a request.
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