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Draft bill: Breaking news stories to be illegalPosted by Jeremy Goldkorn, June 26, 2006 7:42 PM
![]() Translated from a post by Fang Jun on the Mind Meters blog:
Two of the comments on the post:
After reading the last comment, newcomers to this website or to China may want to remind themselves that Chinese people do actually enjoy sarcasm. UPDATE: Thanks to commenter kyth for pointing to an egregious error in the original translation, since corrected. UPDATE 2: China Radio International has a rather balanced article about the bill on their website, (link below):
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Comments on Draft bill: Breaking news stories to be illegal
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10万,that's 100,000
Doh! Thanks.
Fortunately, this bill is still very much in draft and I doubt it will ever become law. I never know what to do with draft bills on my site; there is a draft bill for both sides of just about everything and some of the bills that are considered on the "verge" of passage (equalizing the corporate income tax, antitrust, property reform) never happen, but still might. I take the path of least resistance and generally ignore them, though I think I may do something on the proposed labor law reform plan seeing as how that is looking so certain (until it's not).
An American friend of mine once said Chinese do not understand sarcasm. My American friend speaks Mandarin and often thinks the Americans are the only people who know how to be sarcastic. I told him that just because he couldn't understand Chinese sarcasm doesn't mean that we don't know how to be sarcastic. That's a stupid draft.
What does this mean for the 'Andy Lau / Faye Wong dead' newspaper sellers on the Beijing Subway?
just wondering, more for the sake of argument... since the draft law stipulates also that governing agencies have a responsibility to provide accurate and timely information on whatever crisis/emergency in question, would the failure to do so be a defense for news media charged with fines under the law?
Maybe this is aimed toward those Chinese reporters who made up interviews at the world cup? ha ha!
I propose that the breaking of sudden wind should be penalized too.