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Fire drills and tumors

Posted by Jeremy Goldkorn, February 25, 2004 5:02 PM

FRONT PAGE OF THE DAY
Beijing Morning News is the best of a bad bunch. The large headline is: Meeting to introduce urban planning for Olympics.

Other headlines are about 6 way North Korea talks, RMB banking business in Hong Kong, corrupt officials getting fired, Putin dismissing the Russian government, and drug prices.

The image shows a fire drill: there has been a lot of reporting in the last few days about public safety in the aftermath of the Miyun bridge disaster.

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WORST FRONT PAGE OF THE DAY
Congratulations to the consistently awful Shanghai Xinmin Evening News. The headline is about a survey of hit and run accidents; the picture shows a baby after a successful operation to remove a tumor on its face.

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