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All Hu Jintao, all the timePosted by Joel Martinsen, September 8, 2007 2:15 PM
In Sydney, Australia yesterday, Chinese president Hu Jintao met with Korean president Roh Moo-hyun, Peruvian president Alan Garcia, Papua New Guinean prime minister Michael Somare, New Zeleand prime minister Helen Elizabeth Clark, and Australian Labor Party leader Kevin Rudd.
Such important news belongs nowhere else but on the front page, where the president appears above and below the fold, in four photos of him shaking hands with those national leaders (Kevin Rudd doesn't get a photo; sorry Australia). This marks the fifth day running that Hu has made the cover of People's Daily (and Guangming Daily, Jiefang Daily, and so forth). In fact, he's been in two front-page photos every day since Wednesday. Identical front pages (and Hu's frequent appearance on them) has been going on since mid-August; Xiao Qiang examined this phenomenon in a recent Washington Post opinion piece. In papers that report real news, top headlines are much more varied. The Beijing News announces that China's securites regulators are pushing for more transparency - listed companies must disclose to their stockholders any major decisions they make at the earliest moment possible. Beijing Youth Daily leads with the news that the public's opinions will be solicited concerning reform of the medical system; its front-page photo is of the opening of Dou Wei's arson trial. The rock star admits he set fire to a reporter's car, but says it was unintentional. And Beijing Morning Post says that during the Olympics, Beijing's roads will be lined with 40 million potted flowers, all of them grown in the city. Thanks to the anonymous neighbor who shoved a Beijing Daily in my mailbox this morning. |
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Comments on All Hu Jintao, all the time
"in four photos of him shaking hand with those national leaders (Kevin Rudd doesn't get a photo; sorry Australia)."
Probably because Kevin Rudd is the _opposition_ leader?
Chinese leaders shaking hands with foreign opposition leaders will probably get onto Chinese front pages around the same time as photos of foreign leaders shaking hands with Chinese opposition leaders...
Please refer to a post which written by flypig: three identical front pages from three newspapers. You will know why the head of Communist Party was always on the cover of newspapers. It's ridiculous.
The Rudd meeting has been getting more coverage than the prime minister's here in Australia, because Rudd is a smooth mandarin speaker. They had quite a chat in putonghua and Rudd managed to score an invite to the olympics for him and his family from hu.
These news papers are extremely conservative and boring ones. It's their job to publish 'silly' but 'necessary' photos like these. I don't think regular people ever read these papers anyway. And these papers are funded by the government, most buyers are government agencies, so they don't care about profits or market. It's more like the Party is trying to keep up self-appearance through these papers. H.F.
LOL @ Dou Wei, poor Dou Wei. That's rock bottom for him, after all the rocky bottoms he's been through...... Quote from his song from long long long time ago...
"讲理，讲什莫理" blah blah etc etc...
Okay I can't write Chinese worth crap...
中国政府弄虚作假是世界出了名的,从产品到新闻,到处都是.我并不想夸大,但这是事实.但希望国外不要把中国人等同于中国政府,因为不少中国人还是有良知的.希望国际社会继续保持对中国的客观的密切观察,当然这也是监督.谢谢编辑们整理出来的稿子.