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A curious correctionPosted by Joel Martinsen, December 21, 2006 4:22 PM
This week's Oriental Outlook includes the following correction:
The article in question was a report on the murder of Wen Jiangang, mayor of Xingren County, Guizhou, along with his wife, sister, mother-in-law, nurse, and five-year-old son. Cao Hui, a local man who had previously been arrested for vagrancy, was charged with all six murders, which were said to have been committed in the course of a robbery. The case has been controversial, however - there are suspicions about the motive, and many people believe that Wen was murdered at the behest of local mining companies over his orders in 2005 to close illegal mining operations. The Oriental Outlook article recorded a conversation with the Xingren County propaganda chief, who confirmed that there was bad blood between Wen and the mining companies. However, the provincial propaganda department was mentioned only at the very end of the article:
Though buried at the end of the article, this tidbit caught the attention of a number of portals that reposted the report, where it was used as a replacement title: "Doubts abound in mayor murder case, propaganda department demands an end to interviews." Since there is only one way that the statement could be in error, the fact that the apology doesn't really include any sort of correction shouldn't prevent the careful reader from concluding that the provincial propaganda department didn't actually ban interviews at all. Other reports note that various government departments were avoiding or declining interviews, but only Oriental Outlook, quoting a local propaganda chief, suggested that this was explicit policy. Links and Sources
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